aerogel

See also: Aerogel and aérogel

English
Man holding a cube of aerogel.

Etymology

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

aerogel (countable and uncountable, plural aerogels)

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

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Hungarian: aerogél
  • → Polish: aerożel

Translations

References
  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

Portuguese

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /aˌɛ.ɾoˈʒɛw/ [aˌɛ.ɾoˈʒɛʊ̯]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐˌɛ.ɾɔˈʒɛl/ [ɐˌɛ.ɾɔˈʒɛɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐˌɛ.ɾɔˈʒɛ.li/

Noun

aerogel m (plural aerogéis)

  1. aerogel (an ultralight solid-state substance)

Spanish

Etymology

From aero- +‎ gel.

Noun

aerogel m (plural aerogeles)

  1. aerogel
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