Aerogels are the world's lightest (least dense) solids. They are also excellent thermal insulators and have been used in numerous Mars missions and the Stardust comet particle-return mission. The focus of this video is silica aerogels, though graphene aerogels are now technically the lightest.
At one point Dr. Steven Jones literally held the Guinness World Record for making the lightest aerogel and therefore lightest solid. If you're interested in learning more about aerogels, let me know in the comments as there is a potential trilogy in the works...
Huge thanks to Dr. Stephen Steiner and the crew at Aerogel Technologies. To find out more or buy your own aerogel sample, check out: www.aerogeltechnologies.com/
Thanks to Dr. Steven Jones and Dr. Mihail Petkov at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
And thanks to FLIR for loaning us the awesome high definition thermal camera. The footage is amazing! www.flir.com
Special thanks to Patreon supporters:
Donal Botkin, Michael Krugman, Ron Neal, Stan Presolski, Terrance Shepherd, Penward Rhyme and everyone who provided feedback on an early draft of this video.
Filming by Raquel Nuno
Animations by Maria Raykova
Drawings by Mariel Solsberg
Music From epidemicsound.com "Seaweed" "Swagger Stagger"
World's Lightest Solid!
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Curtis Breillat
The last video I watched was swagger stagger, so I was really confused when it randomly started playing in the middle of this video lol
Andrew Kim
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EthanMigsObnial
No chocolate bunny was harmed in this video
Aurora Diaz
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Skiez YT
Am I the only one that feels like eating this?
Yes Iam
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Lucky K
lol did anyone else jump when the glass cracked at 1:42
Alien Thing
WAIT IF YOU WERE TO EAT IT, I THINK THAT DUE TO ITS PORES IT WOULD DISSOLVE OR ABSORB WATER JUST LIKE CHIPS OR SMTHNG (i dont think i need to say im not a scientist)
KIRAN KUMAR
Can this be manufactured as sheets and placed in between the wall thickness of cold chain boxes, so that vaccines can be delivered to far off remote places (in large developing countries) without temperature excursion on longer journeys?
Chouww King
Wait how about Leaves
Gayle Cheung
OK can we get serious and what is the purpose of what do you call it again aerogel
Louege baguio
aerogel is like a dog with gel.. in bisaya
PunnaT
Can it be used to make Transparent Smartphone just like Tony stark uses?🤔
PunnaT
@Shikha Lohariwal hmm shukriya 🙏
Shikha Lohariwal
Nice idea man
Skidanje Kraste
If sponge is solid this is solid to.
Charles Randolph
While you're in Boston, take the MBTA! Beautiful trains!
5318oo8
Ayo can i borrow that skizzy?
ANDER LABAKA
At 0:23 he says that if you remove the air from it, it would be less dense than air. Well... then if you don´t remove the air, it is still less dense than air, right? Just in an smaller percentage, but the idea is the same...
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Those blurry looking edges tho
Now imagine solid item in your hands that you cant see where it ends...
alan lu
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cedano371
can we use it for the cpu of computers?
Prabhavathy Murthy
3:10
travis graham
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Bharath Mourya
Why not cover the bunny while testing?
Mokhtar Ouanouki
4:45 A white scientist talking like Queen Latifah
World of Tank
Why does the thumb nail look like ur holding the univers
ValaxysPrime
Nobody:
Me: Hm... Looks pretty good...
Babies first two thoughts: What does it taste like and can I fit it in my mouth
MaTz YaN
Tesheract
Wind Gonzales
It's amazing but my brain can't comprehend
Narnia Strawberry
aeroel function=hard to burn
Matteo Aversa
Subnautica players: I've seen that one
Mansi Joshi
Would it ever find use in medicine?
Madara Uchiha
bob lazar lab created that right!
Aaron Boeh
Since aerogel can be made from a variety of materials...what about a graphene aerogel or polymer? Would that even be possible, this must have been considered already..
Giwrgos Soiles
Perfect insulation for my house.
John`s Rabid Mutt
You can see the terror in Mrs Bunnys eyes. Watching MR Bunny being cooked over a bunsen burner. She knows what time it is
nicola mafessoni
sono il comento italiano che cercavi
Ochi Fortune
Is it edible? I really wanna chew it!😁
Jibby Ali
So there's only one other person commenting about wanting to eat it?
M Hassan Khalid
My hair is lighter than that
ARYAN SHENOY
Fun fact
Aerogel is not a conductor cuz it has air
And air is a bad conductor
apoorv yash future iitian
Everything was so good but why only the rabbit was victimised for the experiment.. Rip rabbit🥺
Anand thakur
Chip bag: HAHAHAHAHA I HAVE SO LESS AIR ITS LIKE 70% AIR HAHAHAHAHA
Aerogel: I HAVE MORE AIR
Chip bag: NO WAY! HAHAHAHAHA
Aerogel: shows this video
Chip bag: immmmmma preeeeetend i diddddddddnt heaaaaaaaar thaaaaaaaaaaaat
Mimizah show
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Latchman Mangra
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fulesmackofule
Cost? How much would it be to use it as window for a house? Assuming you would have to put it in between glass layers to resist breaking and weather (rain)...
고도슴치
Where can I BUY THIS Aerogel ????? I WANT IT
DoDo on Ryzen 3 1200
you can make it by 2 rubies
amir mo
hey bro im from iran and i love you for upload video to persian ❤❤
Ashraf Alattar
My Ph. D work thesis with this material and how can i. Control with pH for TEOS & TMOS WAS SO HARDBWITH WORK BUT really its awesome material
HEADCORE
Hashish is lighter 🤣
C G
Quite a comment at 6:26. Might there be a natural affinity towards God when encountering 'awe'? After 40 years in Alaska I notice that moose do not experience 'awe'. Just people.
Anebee John
My think is more dense than this thing!!!
JWP 51O15
Fun fact: 10kg of the lightest material is the same weight as 10kg of bricks
Convert to imperial if you can americans
Taylie Wood
why do i want to eat it
EZ
Khác đ gì kính đâu. Mà nhẹ vl 😄
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Arturo Aka
Veritasium: Aerogel is the world's lightest solid
Me: What about paper?
J L
It is...
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0:00 . rewind 5 seconds or 10 seconds back from 0:00 , but you have to do it one tap at a time. It looks very weird
David Li
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Tristan SN
can you do that to humans?
Tristan SN
I want to eat that for some reason
DANAQ OFFICIAL
want to smoke that air to get high
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I mean paper is the slightest solid? like tear into really small! I mean it should be
Javier Trota
..en 20" afirma que si quita todo el aire seria menos denso que el aire... entonces no debiera flotar, elevarse en la atmósfera???
..in 20 "affirms that if you remove all the air it would be less dense than air ... then it should not float, rise in the atmosphere ???
Ernesto Gonzales
i watched this because i thought it was just an edit, and boy i was proven wrong
apexxy
ahhh the days before having to wear masks
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Pekopekopeko QAQ
Gamer Girl
so this is a solid?
Nicolas Bradley
Wwooooohhhhh
ShanTanu Thakur
Oh so they 've found that object which have more air than lays
Manideep Reddy
1 grain of rice is not even weigh 1gm
Ameerdeen S
crush it
OGHUVWU BLESSING
Jesus Christ is God.
Kiran Pathak
Woh ...wortful
Hariharan Natarajan
Your subtitle is so irritated.
Zmzxz Zmzxz
Nice teeth
Piyush Singh
Awesome
Sherzy
"This is" Air jello literal air that looks like jello
David
Now if you could make it out of a high hydrogen substance to defeat radiation I know a Starship builder who would invest ship loads.😉
M. Sufyian
hi
Bryan Goldfield
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Rick Timmons
could it be used to construct an see through plane skin? or added to tank armor to dampen Monroe effect? bazooka/rpg hits outer skin to absorb impact; then aerogel douses the chemical flame. better than that - coating on bottom of vehicles to deflate IED. SAVE LIVES!
McLavaBoi
I've found Elon Musk.
Ri No
SUbscribe to the channel and this "might" be the next part of the trilogy. LOL bad manners.. give the last part first, then I subscribe..
Ronny Behncke
So krasst man das Universum ;;; in der wir leben ...
Skrach
this could be usefull for space missions to keep people heating up and you know
Mark NC
That's why they call it a bunny-sen burner.
Withrow Portugal
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Callum Colson
Can someone tell me what hes holding I dont see anything?
mert bozak
İs this can be Ozon layer
Rameez Alam
lays have more air.
Charmaine Jacobsen
I remember when I 1st watched a documentary when NASA used the aero gel on SOHO , I thought it was capturing the particles blasted off of the sun , but you said it was off a comet . Also , I remember watching another documentary on the man who " supposedly " was the 1st person to invent it , who was an Asian man . Wow , I was surprised to hear here that it was invented in the 30's . Nonetheless, my impression of the material stii is in complete amazement & awe . I knew when I 1st saw it , all the wonderful capabilities it can , & 1 day be used for ! Truely , 1 of the best inventions of my time if not the past millennium
水果
just wondering how is it taste
Demon
Schools ordering toilet paper be like
We will the whole stock !!
CollieAgility
In english please
bee !!
i wanna eat it so bad
Mabanag mc
I still cant lift that...
The Rationalist
A cube of glass of that size with thin walls is also 99 percent air and has same weight
Plutonium Isotope
But it is filled with air
Fooleish
It looks like solid smoke.
Amila Randunu
Joseph Seed has gained weight and making aerogel? this can't be good 😲
Pratham Tagotra
9:16 minecraft