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aerogel

synthetic ultralight material
class ultralight_material Q381490
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Summary

aerogel is an ultralight material[1]. aerogel draws 8,871 Wikipedia views per month (ultralight material category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Steven Kistler[3]
  • Subclass of: gel[4]
  • Commons category: Aerogel[5]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1931[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Aerogels[7]

Why It Matters

aerogel has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] aerogel is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Related Entities

aerographene gel Institute of Materials Research

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Freebase id → /m/026rz6
    Openalex id → C2780012831
    Microsoft academic id (discontinued) → 2780012831
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