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barbegal on Sept 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dry Water

It wouldn't be as good as Aerogel [1] which is a similar silica nano-particle based structure. It contains air as opposed to water so conducts very little heat.

[1] http://www.aerogel.org/?p=1929

Hasz on Sept 11, 2018 | [–]

Except that aerogel, classically, is incredibly unbelievably fragile.

There's now composites out there that are supposedly better though.

feedbeef on Sept 12, 2018 | | [–]

This also comes to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite

taspeotis on Sept 11, 2018 | [–]

Sounds like Aerogel would be lighter, too.

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