The world's lightest metal has been developed by a team of researchers from Univeristy of California, Irvine HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology. The material is about 100 times lighter than styrofoam and could be useful for battery electrodes and acoustic or vibration absorption.
"so light that it can sit atop dandelion fluff without damaging it" |
Read more at http://today.uci.edu/news/2011/11/nr_lightmetal_111117.php
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