Aerogel in A Sentence

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    Aerogel is made by high temperature and pressure critical point drying of a gel composed of colloidal silica structural units filled with solvents.

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    More than 2.4 m 2 of silica aerogel capture cells have been flown todate.

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    The aim of the mission is to collect particles from Comet Wild 2 using a material called aerogel.

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    The JPL facility will produce the aerogel for the STARDUST mission and provide well controlled media properties and purity.