aerogel

See also: Aerogel and aérogel

English edit

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aerogel

Man holding a cube of aerogel.

Etymology edit

From aero- +‎ gel. First attested in the early 1920s as a coinage credited to British-Irish chemist Frederick G. Donnan, originally in reference to coagulated aerosols.^[1]^[2]

Noun edit

aerogel (countable and uncountable, plural aerogels)

A porous, ultralight solid-state substance, similar to gel, in which the liquid component is replaced with gas.

Derived terms edit

X-aerogel

Descendants edit

→ Hungarian: aerogél
→ Polish: aerożel

Translations edit

ultralight solid-state substance

Catalan: aerogel m
Finnish: aerogeeli
French: aérogel (fr) m
German: Aerogel (de) n
Greek: αεροπήκτωμα n (aeropíktoma)
Hungarian: aerogél
Ido: aerojelo (io)
Italian: aerogel (it) m
Korean: 에어로젤 (eeorojel)
Polish: aerożel (pl) m
Portuguese: aerogel (pt) m
Punjabi: ਏਰੋਜੈੱਲ (ērojailla)
Russian: аэроге́ль (ru) m (aerogélʹ)
Spanish: aerogel (es) m
Turkish: aerojel (tr)

References edit

^ Whytlaw-Gray, R., Speakman, J. B., Campbell, J. H. P. (1923 February) “Smokes: Part I. A Study of their Behaviour and a Method of Determining the Number of Particles they Contain”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, volume 102, number 718, →JSTOR, page 613
^ Gibbs, William E. (1924) Clouds and Smokes: The Properties of Disperse Systems in Gases and Their Practical Application, London: J. & A. Churchill, page 95

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˌɛ.ɾoˈʒɛw/ [aˌɛ.ɾoˈʒɛʊ̯]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˌɛ.ɾɔˈʒɛl/ [ɐˌɛ.ɾɔˈʒɛɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˌɛ.ɾɔˈʒɛ.li/

Noun edit

aerogel m (plural aerogéis)

aerogel (an ultralight solid-state substance)

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From aero- +‎ gel.

Noun edit

aerogel m (plural aerogeles)

aerogel

[1] Whytlaw-Gray, R., Speakman, J. B., Campbell, J. H. P. (1923 February) “Smokes: Part I. A Study of their Behaviour and a Method of Determining the Number of Particles they Contain”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, volume 102, number 718, →JSTOR, page 613

[2] Gibbs, William E. (1924) Clouds and Smokes: The Properties of Disperse Systems in Gases and Their Practical Application, London: J. & A. Churchill, page 95

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