World's Lightest Solid!
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2024
- 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"
Aerogel: iam 99.8% air but why do i hear boss music playing
*Lays: are you challenging me?*
"Come then, let us fight to the end"
I dont get it
Lmao 😂😂😂
Lust buy lays and you will understand
Ok
"99.8% Air"
So the company producing this is associated with Lays, huh?
😂😂
Green for the win.
So true 😂
They actually have a partnership
They do sir
As a thermal engineer, I appreciate this great scientific innovation. Looking forward to sharing this great video with my thermal group at Villanova University, USA!
You, lmao sure
@@0kay194 not cool
@@0kay194 shut
🤓🤓🤓🤓
Nice humblebrag!
I remember reading about this in USA Today about 30 years ago. They had a picture of an Aerogel cube in a person's hand, and a candle flame in the background. They said that Aerogel worked so well, that if a room was fully insulated with the substance, the candle flame would be enough to heat the room. I thought that was so intriguing. And yet, I never really heard much about it again. I'm guessing it's both very expensive and very fragile to be practical in mass insulation production.
You can order it right now. Just google for it
Its kinda pricy at like 100$ per square meter and 1/4" thick.
Its thermal isolation is about 1.5 times as good as PIR and 2-3 times as good as rockwool.
So yes its there, but you have 5 inches of PIR for pennies and it insulates MUCH better than 1/4" aerogel.
In the end all these insulation materials do the same, insulate by having tiny airpockets. The smaller the air pockets, the better, aerogel is the best, but its not a game changing difference. Thickness always remains key to insulation. Unless you are willing to spend a fortune to save a little on the thickness/weight, you're just better of using something cheap like PIR.
I remember to I seen it like frrr but I thought it was a joke but it was true
Air: Who are you?
Aerogel: *I’m you but stronger.*
Daniel
The cooler Daniel
John
The cooler John
hahahahahah
I think it should be:
Air: Who are you?
Aerogel: *I’m you, but lighter*
@@dari2409 denser
The world's *second* lightest solid is my wallet.
Edit: Yo, I left for a year and came back to look at this thread. And nope. I am not even gonna ask.
Lol
lol
lol
Lol
Lol
It's great to know about aerogels that have really great and interesting properties. Watching the video about the various uses and roles of the aerogel, I found it very attractive. I'm also looking forward to watching the aerogel develop further. Not only do we hope for more innovation and development in the future, but we also look forward to seeing aerogels being used in new areas.
The fact that they did this in 1931 is actually what blows my mind; it reframes what I think of scientific progress and capability back then
10:40 I totally did not expect THAT sound.
Ikr? Like I thought it's kinda... Soft... Like hard but... Not liek glass hard more like plastic or hard rubber hard...
Ohh hell ,I didn't even notice it , thnks for drawing our attention to that
it sounded like a tin can!!!!
I thought it would sound like jelly
Yeah, that noise definitely doesn't match the object and how their describing it. Not at all.
Aerogel - I’m the closest to air possible
Lays - Observe
best comment in this comment section
Awesome, it’s so true 😂
you cant compare air to air. thats just unfair :D
😂😂😂😂😂😂
This man gets it😎
Would aerogel make for good screen protectors for phones since it scatters the color blue more then red/yellow?
I feel like maybe it could be, if they found a way to make it more durable while also staying incredibly thin.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
Nobody :
My brain : can I eat that
Same
No no no, can you BREATHE that
yes.
you’d float
Main question is if it is edible!
“This object is 99.8% air”
Lays: finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA you made me laugh
AHHAHAHAHA
lol
XD XD
Lol
This was so well explained! ✔️❤️
There's a lot of organic and polymer chemistry in aerogels. Very exciting materials!
So you are basically holding a piece of the sky
Minecraft end of world, lol (I so dumb)
Chicken little xd
The sky is falling !
Edit - Chicken Little reference
A sky can weight more than that
@@hellothere8430 it needs Atlas to hold it then....
My boy figuring out the CZcams algorithm... you deserve it
1,344,121 viewws when i sawed it. He must be a wizard with purple pants.
Aseem Gidwani huh?
@@codycast love it
@@codycast Aseem is referring to the previous Veritasium video: czcams.com/video/fHsa9DqmId8/video.html
IQ 10000
Found this by accident & am so glad I did!! Fascinating!
Wow, crazy how something so simple can make such a big impact. I’m sure there’s so much more we can do with this in do time. Very interesting👍🏽
due time*
I have never wanted to touch something more in my life.
Edit: this comment has been on this video for two years and, to this day, I get notifications of people liking it in my inbox. It wasn’t even supposed to be a joke! I was but a simple fool writing the first thing I thought. It haunts me.
boobs?
Patpiee Design why did I imagine someone saying something like that before I clicked on replies!?😂😂😂
@@szef1539 yeah I came here to say that mate I'm disappointed I didn't get it first
Dick?
Err uhm I mean boobs! Damnit
You didn’t hear that
Aerogel: 99.8% air
Plankton: 1% evil, 99% hot gas
Soon this comment will have 4k likes.
@@goatfather6045... soon...
xD
Old Goat 400*
Shrexy
It's one of best video I have seen since last 21 years 🙂
i'm crying this is so beautiful
Aerogel- has 99.8% air.
Lays-HoLd My AiR
Steven Matthews Lays is 99.99% air
alright come on atleast make your own comment. Don't steal them.
Mirend this is the Internet comrade
Nothing is yours
Nothing is mine
If it exists
It's o u r s
*i n t e r n e t c o m m u n I s m*
@@btsgarbage This made many laugh. I love you for this comment. Have this. 💜
Aerogel- I am 99.8% air.
Lays- Hold my air.
Aerogel- I am 99.8% air.
SeDnA YT- Hold my brain.
@Carson Bailey lol right? Man desperation at its finest.
Hold my solid**
😂
@@hallucy2215 lays fan huh? ;)
Great invention 👍
Initially I thought it would have been inspired from Cotton Candy, but it was mind-blowing to know that they evaporated liquid from a jello, wow.
The animation of Knudsen effect was next level 💥
love how chocolate takes mad long to melt under a fire but melts in 5 seconds in my hand
Foreal 😂😂😂
Hahaha I swear
Bruh so true
I can relate so so badly
Maybe your surrounding temperature that melt the chocolate
Aerogel: I’m 99% air
Chip bags: *pathetic*
Actually that's not 99% air, it's composed of 98.8% of air, there is a difference of 0.2%.
you mean lays
LMAO
@@noidadeepti prolly also doritos
Chip packets are filled with a lot of nitrogen so that the chips stay fresher longer and have a longer shelf life..also when they are transported they get tossed around and so having the nitrogen in them prevents them from getting crushed. So yeah thats your fact of the day why chips have a lot of air :)
I've been as amazed by Aerogel since the time I heard about it. It's amazing how you can create stuff out of thin air and use it in a gazillion ways. This video is a great piece of work. Kudos 👏
Hello. Thank you very much for this video and also a special thanks for putting Farsi(Persian) subtitles
It looks like an ice cube but it somehow died and turned into a ghost
It looks little Holographic
Your comment deserve an noble prize
@@ev2782 Why? This vid is about light solids, not noble gases!
Bruh, ive also seen you on CircleToon's new video wtf
Is your profile pic the Red blood cell from cells at work?
Aerogel is 99.8% air
Lays: are u challenging me
Chocolate ur weird
Thanks
@@Thomas-bt7or ...shut up
Shut up Critical even if I’m wierd to that makes u weirder
GAMING WITH E.W AND M.K ok?
Another video which is amazing is on the channel NileRed where he makes aerogel in his lab, I was surprised with how complicated it is to actually make this.
Clicked on this video by accident and now I love it and won’t stop watching it
He discovered that you could swap the water in jello for alcohol. The true inventor of the jello shot.
that would be rad
🤣😊🖖
He was invited to all the parties
@@GizmoMaltese And they said nerds didn't get invited to the cool parties
Literally, my first thought was how far can we then take the jello shot. 99.8% ethanol?
World Lighest Solid: *contains alot of air*
Lays: *_Allow me to introduce myself_*
This is the 3rd version of this comment, and the newest
@@humanbeans4498 Still not funny tho
@@dontknowdontcare1934
What did one potato chip say to the other?
Hi, I'm Humpty Dumpty, are you Frito Lay?
Was that funny enough for you?
I really don't understand but Lays are Called Walkers in my country.
😭
now I know about aerogels!
This is neat!
that stuff is so cool I actually got to play with some in elementary school one of my classmates dad's worked for NASA brought in a couple pieces
10:38 that second piece dropping, the sound blew my mind more than anything else
Ok yes thank you
It's piped in.
Exactly
life is a mystery of thing we'll never understand and also Karens are a very mysterious type
WFT mind blow
Fantastic work!
It’s about time I saw a great video on Airgel
Aerogel has 99.8% air
Inside of my skull: Hold my Brain cells
Anton1561
r/ihadastroke
Anton1561 r/engrish
@Anton1561
*are
*you
*saying
*you
*have
*brain
Patrick: "airhead heheh." *head deflates*
@@alexh1131 r/ihavereddit
Aerogel- 99.8% AIR
Lays: "I'm gonna end this man's whole career"
@@Chaytonioio no sh1t Sherlock
@@Chaytonioio u must be fun at parties
@@Chaytonioio ...just no
Nitrogen is air tho
@@Chaytonioio r/wooosh
Me gusta que le entusiasme compartir sus conocimientos. Los maestros de las escuelas públicas deberían incorporar esto en su enseñanza. Cuando estaba en la escuela, dos de mis profesores de ciencias estaban entusiasmados. Amaban lo que hacían. Exudaban eso en su trabajo. La retención del trabajo de curso fue mucho mayor que en otras clases y materias.
You literally translated someone else's comment, props to you
This Video is super good for knowledge and I love it
good job ✓
10:40 you really should have recorded more how it sounds like, that metallic/glass like sound was really unexpected
I just posted the same thing. 😄
It surprised me too.👍
Yeah I didn't expect it to sound like that at all lol
@@ShaddyWoohooMan in the end its still sponged up silica
I thought aerogel is soft, jelly and spongy, not glassy and easy breakable. Therefore, it's not aerogel, but aeroglass. Ehh... those scientists have no sense for sense.
@@damyr yea but its the SKELETON of the gel, there is no gel in it anymore its basically a scaffolding
That aerogel is like a constant ‘Oddly Satisfying’ moment
😮
This
Guys, take a moment and check this guy's(aspect science) channel,
Guy has some good videos...
haha
Aspect Science love your channel ❤️
That stuff is so comfortable ! I remember in iraq they said our
Cushioning pads in our kevlar was aerogel
It is so great invention... You can discover new things using this... I can't wait what will be the use of it...what is the Important contributions of it to technology..
"Is this okay to touch"
-This man, while touching it.
*breaking
Very NİCE Video Look My Channel :)
He meant “may I touch it.”
he did that a few times & out of habit it made me a lil mad -,-
Ruilmon sez hi Im the 1k like
If this was taught in schools I would willingly go to school even on weekends.
be honest, no you wouldnt
to all the people saying you would, if this change actually took place youd be regretting it after a few weeks
Right?? Omg I swear we were taught the same things every year and I was always in advanced science because it was to easy. I wanna learn stuff like this! It isn't even new! It was created in the 30's!! I wanna make aerogel!
nah bro, go into materials engineering and maybe in your masters you'll be able to work with this kind of stuff, but you gotta go through a few hard and boring years to start to understand these things practically
till you have to calculate those gels and understand the chemical reactions itself :D
no, but you sure know that cell's powerhouse is mitochondria
Despite me watching this video a thousand times٫ and Nile reds video of aerogel coming out a couple months ago٫ I still think how cool it is that both Nile red and Veritasium have made very similar videos.
Killing me. Bring the mini series. How about Alon next.
"Can I put my finger here?"
*Puts finger there without hesitation
and then licks his finger, and puts it straight onto the device without wiping
@@ifrite3 wrong finger
@xiggie
who cares, out of everything you can take from the video that's what you care about gtfo lol
If it isn't hot enough to melt chocolate it won't melt his finger
Derek's last words will be "what does this button do?".
I really wanted to see him break/squish/crumble the Aerogel (more)
*11:05*
@@DJHeroMasta +
Vilcum To hedrolik prays chennel...
I know right
Very NİCE Video Look My Channel :)
Wow fascinating, didn’t even know about this, that really cool!
I have been seeing this video on my suggestion feed over and over for weeks now, more than any other unseen video has been suggested to me EVER. Every time I get on my phone or PC, there it is, at the top of my feed. And after about five minutes of scrolling, there it is again. I am now watching it just so it will go away and I see 51,891,488 views. Everything makes sense now.
Aerogel:
Lays: Finally! A worthy opponent!
Lays: Our battle will be legendary!
I understood that reference ☝
Lol
XD
copied but ok
@Gaming Legend Absolutely unnecessary, it's just a comment! And, others find it funny so, if you dont have anything nice to say, don't say it! Good day! :)
Veritasium figured out how the internet works. I'm so glad to see you get consistent success again.
If there is one great thing clickbait-y youtube channels have done, it's teach legitimate content creators how to make a living again.
You're not a true science channel until you science the frick out of your entire medium!
@@nowheremap You're not a true science channel until you stop supporting oppressive, fascist Internet censors (i.e., Patreon).
@@paulthompson9668 Please cry more, your tears sustain me.
@@TheMightyPatapon That's an old one, son.
This is incredible it's like a solid cloud if you know what I mean. the aerogels, could be used in so many medical techniques to be able to improve the the touch and feel of a solid matter. i feel. let me know what you all think?
Wicked. Very clever stuff.
Super Light Solid
When Dropped Sounds Like Metal
*Seems Legit*
K
Watched this comment in the same moment
@@alessiomantovanelli2758same
@@alessiomantovanelli2758 *watched a comment*
Sounds like glass... it's silica
Bets in 1930's: dare you to change the molecular structure of jelly into an unseen before composition
Bets in 2018: eat a tide pod
Lol
🤣
@@OFFICIAL_VIDEO_AWARDSwell deserved. Stay proud
ti-tide pods? MY god, that was 2018!?
@@fruze8478 Yeah you can stop eating them now.
Amazing stuff.
the SOUND of the aerogel being droppped!!!!
Dropping aerogel sounds like metal?
I was fine up until that point.
Like tin almost
hahaha so it's not only me, I cringed a little
I don't believe it!!
Please explain these acoustic properties
@@TheTom90100 A light solid that makes a little tiny sound, but resonates a lot in all those micro-air chambers? That is my hypothesis at least...
Could you replace the air inside that cube with Helium and make the Aladdin's flying carpet?
-- anyone, give this guy a stable genius award.
Well Aladdin's flying football field then 😂
like... a rubber balloon
@@---fj1ju Right on !!!
XD
it sounds like metal when it hits the desk, amazing
An amazing material
My brain: Okay, go to sleep
CZcams recommendations at 3am: worlds lightest solid?
My brain: sure why not
same issue
really, youtube recommendations are becoming a meme now
My brain cant get by the chocolate bunny they ruined...
Same man
F4TE WackoJacko - LoL. That’s the story of my life. 😉
Beat the algorithm, viral, and no click-bait? Veruitasium is the king of the Tube.
Steven Laity hopefully he won’t go clickbait later tho
Ever heard of Daily Dose of Internet?
cos science is cool yo
Good ole Dirk of Veristablium.
Click bait doesn't just mean lying, it's just having an attractive title/thumbnail. So yes, he does clickbait. Everyone does.
Your videos are super cool 😇 looking for more
Very cool stuff!
4:28 "Can I put my finger here?"
**puts it there anyway before the guy tells him it's safe**
Because he's CZcamsr 😂 He is must make a good content 😂
That's whats he did to his boyfriend.
@@sergejnikitin99nt Yep thats what he must did have to did!
he pointed at it
It is amazing how we learn great things here than we did in school.
why hello there
Yup
Hello verified person
Yeah whatever spammer..😒😒
nice grammar
Touched the sky finally.
my middle school science teacher actually showed us that!! we couldn't experiment on it since she only had one little sample though, it was still cool nonetheless
Thank you so much for not making us go through a hell hole of introductions, presentations and giveaways in a schizofrenic voice.
Straight to the point.
I recently unsubbed to all channels that overdo this, youtube is now nice and calm :)
I wish CZcams would stop using “watch time” in their algorithm. I miss the days of short and concise videos, straight to the point.
Guys make sure we hit 5000 likes in the first hour AND I'LL UPLOAD AEROGEL PART 2 !!
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Who you calling out? I'm not getting the hint
Aerogel: I am basically made from air.
Lays: So am I 😊
🤣
how u gon say its lay but it be almost all chip backs that be like that
I-Ehh?
I’m made of air
@@user-qs1mn9xj1z man i love opening *chip backs* and eating the chips inside
Fascinating.
Would aerogel be suitable for insulation material in the building sector for normal houses, or is it way to expensive to produce? Could this technology be developed so that a broad use of the material would be possible? It's a fascinating material for sure! 😍
It's way too expensive for commercial properties. The process to make it also isn't easy, however easy it seems on demos like these.
It's pricey because its not mass produced yet, it'll be cheaper when its already mass produced
Imagine you build a house with Aerogel, will the house be flying somewhere when the wind blows? o-o
Omg I'm in deep thoughts now bro....
69 likes lol imma ruin that and make it 70
@@anwarhossain6979 me 2
If you are inside home so it won't 😂
hol up..
I tought that thumbnail was fake?!!
Veritasium never disappoints.
I skipped this video multiple times in recommended because it looked like clickbait, until I saw it was from veritasium
Neil deGrasse Tyson showed this thing in his podcast
he has already woken up to the "youtube-game", like he said in his how to go viral video. except it from this point on.
That's a banger!
You uncultured swine
finally a material which can withstand the extreme tempratures in space..
they should weave some fibers through it when its solidifying as a gel to reinforce it, i doubt it would affect the insulating strength
Legend watch after 2 years
😂 😂
Lol so true after ignoring it several times CZcams finally made me click it
I've watched it but i'm rewatch 2 years later
Legend's watch after u
U guys do like to spread cringe i guess....many ppl watch vids after years...u just want some stupid reason to call urself a LeGenD
10:39 that was a shocker to hear the aerogel sound like that
Dimtriyo Freeman fr the sound doesn’t fit what your looking at at all
If you can *see* aerogel *sound* that's a shocker in itself
@@HagenvonEitzen oops
Theres a metal table on the bottom ?
Peter Quill But if you drop a sponge on a table, what does it sound like?
Hello Veritasium,
Can aerogel be able to form heat protection shields for the reentry into the atmosphere as well?
SICK DUDE
That is not a very well adjusted Bunsen burner. My chem teacher would be disappointed.
Nathan VanderWal haha was thinking the same thing
@@DandolfiGames Same here.
The regulation of the burner is irrelevant at this point
Akira Ichikawa r/wooosh
@@akiraic LOL wow. Yeah... about that...
One could say the guys making aerogels are aerosmiths. Steven Tyler would be proud.
**slow clap** 👏
*continues Slow clap*
Continues continued slow clap
*Slow claps starts to fade!*
fade becomes roaring applause!!
I held some of this in 1992 when I was in high school. My science teacher had some for us
Let’s all take a moment to celebrate a modern day legend: Samuel Kistler, inventor of the Jello Shot. A king amongst men. Salute!
WOWW YOU DON'T READ MY PROFILE PICTURE
"Can I put my finger here?"
*puts finger there before getting answer*
I've made that mistake before.
That’s a rape case right there
I read this comment right as he said that
Be careful. Not because it's hot.
Science
Him: It is 99.8% air
Me: Are you talking about Lays?
😂😂😂
Man it's 2010 huh?
Daniel Song more like lays bags XD
It's not an air in Lays
This comment needs more likes
"A liquid chocolate situation". Sounds like my kind of situation 😍
Fun Fact! The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray may look like a spaceship from some angles, but that may be by sheer coincidence. Though that’s not to say that a certain space agency shouldn’t be thanked for a certain attribute the C7 features. And that is a substance called Aerogel!
Developed by NASA for use in space suits, Aerogel is considered to be one of the lightest materials in existence, composed of 99.8 percent air, and yet capable of retaining a solid form. At the same time, this substance insulates 39 times better than even the best fiberglass. It is with Aerogel that GM chose to line the C7’s transmission tunnel, with a 10-mm (0.4-inch) layer applied to its sides, and another 5 mm (0.2 inch) on the top. The goal is to keep the heat of the transmission tunnel from transferring into the cabin..
7:28
So what you're telling me is that this is the first ever thing that is truly colored "sky blue"
And you just gave a possible simple reason why the sky is blue, thank yue
@@kuhataparunks thank hue**
Fancy Glasses door’s that way ->
I mean there's the sky
Not really not at all
Lol well at least i dont think thats what its saying