could aerogel be used to make an incredibly strong material?
Could aerogel be used to make an incredibly strong material?
David Torres
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Aaron Walker
do you really need dragondildos that resistant?
Easton Harris
prolly not since its made from silica
Jayden Peterson
no but we need stronger materials to build better buildings and other ovjects
Eli Phillips
Meme materials are only strong by mass.
If you take materials by size say one cubic cm it goes like
Tungsten>steel>titanium>aluminium>magnesium>plastics and shit
If you take i kg of titanium though it will be bigger but also stronger than 1kg of steel
Kayden Kelly
Just use metal ya dingus
Josiah Myers
perhaps leave thinking to other people
Noah Miller
Wait for the second Veritasium video and you'll find out.
Xavier Bennett
how can we progress limited as we currently are?
Alexander Allen
Could they make it cheap enough so that I can use it to insulate my house?
Aaron Taylor
Absolutely based Veritasium poster
Gavin Murphy
no
Landon Wood
Imagine being this ignorant.
Nicholas Williams
isn't that like saying metal can't be strong because it's made of lead?
Isaac Young
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Parker Ortiz
What the fuck does this even mean? Volume is different that the tensile or compression strength of a material. I can make a dildo from titanium that is a little stronger and much lighter but otherwise identical to my steel dildo... How is volume relevant?
Justin James
it's about weight
aerogel weighs basically as much as air, so it has less inertia, so you can move it faster
Kevin Nelson
>imagine having an ass so loose that moving a small, probably hollow piece of plastic is a concern
Thomas Perry
>hurr a thousand pounds of steel is the same as 5 pounds of equally comparable strenght material
good god i hope you are trolling, who the fuck trollies around a single pipe, and who would carry around a pipe that weight much more for no benefit
Kevin Campbell
No.
Jace Morris
there is a reason why gay people have to use diapers after some years of hard anal sex.
Chase Kelly
This is the most likely application. Installation costs are going to be a bitch because the stuff is so damn fragile.
Nathan Scott
Aerogel is not the strongest material, but it is supposed to be one of the greatest insulators. So I looked into it. Apparently compared to standard house insulation methods it actually isn't as good as you think and certainly can't compete on cost.
Jack Harris
>but it is supposed to be one of the greatest insulators.
A vacuum is much better insulator.
Jack Morales
Nice to see some fellow redditbros! +1 for the epic Veritasium reference.
Jose Martinez
Kek.
Wyatt Williams
Redditbros? Fuck off. I'm following him through my terminal RSS client.
Hunter Reed
YouTube bros?
How is this related to Reddit
Samuel Foster
most normal titanium alloys aren't even nearly as strong as above mild grade steels, and it doesn't even have that great of weight savings either so until recently it's cost precluded its use except in major weight-critical applications. it's real advantages are somewhat better heat resistance and massively superior corrosion resistance to (titanium is stronger than the vast majority of stainless steels, and much more resilient against almost every corrosive agent)
Ryder Sullivan
No
But with it's properties, you could, in theory, have the world's thinnest condom you will never use.
Julian Young
Is it still too expensive to make large sheets of them for roof insulating? This could change summer.
Jaxon Murphy
Not really (granted, I don't know... maybe)? It's weak af, it just has a few unique properties that make it very useful for very specific cases. It's basically glass foam. It's strong for it's weight but it's useless if anything else involved in the structure is not as light as aerogel, or if it's big enough to need to withstand any amount of wind or the like.
Ayden Adams
Aerogel is a great insulator. Could be used as a liner inside Mars buildings.
Ethan Adams
no. It's incredibly brittle. It's a great thermal insulator but it's useless for most practical moving objects because it's so brittle.
Bentley Watson
Even if, who cares?
Every new material technology fails when they try to mass produce it.
I've lost count how many revolutionary scientific papers I've read only to never hear about it ever again because it can't be made in large scale.
Thomas Williams
Correction user, Inertia dosen't make it move faster, since top speed is based on mass and surface area, but it will take the aerogel accelerate faster from a steady state. :)
Mason Cooper
Such a completely ignorant post
Also both plastics and magnesium alloys are stronger and lighter than aluminum, but explode instead of defform when the right force is applied, not much plasticity
Luis Price
aluminium isn't exactly the best as far as "deforms rather than snaps/explodes" goes, either
Justin Jones
>plastics
>not much plasticity
hurrrrrr
user hurrr
did you forget your brain pills today lmao
Oliver Reed
>. Apparently compared to standard house insulation methods it actually isn't as good as you think
Thats a dishonest way of conveying little to no information user.
What i am guessing is that gluing/stapling is a ineffective process in the first place, so thin plates of aerogel wouldn't be airtight. So sure, they insulate, but they don't stop the rest of the flow.