时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力文摘 English Digest


英语课

Frozen Smoke 


固体烟


 


Male: What's as light as smoke but strong as a brick?


Female: I'm gonna take a while guess and say... aerogel?


Male: Sorry,yaoyao,the answer is... Wait a second! Did you say aerogel? How did you know?


F:Yeap! Did you know that aerogel is the lightest solid on earth?


M: I was going to tell you that.


F: Another cool thing is that it starts out as a kind of chemical Jello 1. Then the gel is dried in a powerful pressure cooker and emerges as a very lightweight, dry, sponge- like material that looks like frozen smoke.


M: OK! Did you know that aerogel is ninety-nine-point-eight percent air?


F: Sure.That was in your notes.And it’s incredibly light–one thousand times less dense 2 than glass. But it's also really strong and an excellent insulator.


M: Is there anything you don't know about aerogel? For instance,scientists are using it to try to capture dust particles from the tail of a comet. When the particlesslam into an aerogelpanel aboard a space probe, they'll bury themselves inside and leave visible trails. Since aerogel is mostly air, it won't damage the particles.


F: Actually, I know that too.


 







男:什么东西既可以跟烟一样轻,又可以跟砖块一样重?


女:让我想会儿... 气凝胶?


男:瑶瑶,不好意思,答案是... 等等!你说的是气凝胶吗?你是怎么知道的?


女:是的!你知道气凝胶是地球上最轻的固体吗?


男:我刚刚正要告诉你呢!


女:了不起的是,气凝胶开始是作为一种化学凝胶物的。然后胶体在压力很强的锅里变干,成为了一种重量很轻、很干燥、类似海绵状,看起来像固体烟雾的物体。


男:是的!那你知道气凝胶中99.8%都是空气吗?


女:知道啊!你的笔记中有的!气凝胶相当的轻,轻到密度只有玻璃的千分之一。但它也很结实,是几号的绝缘体。


男:关于气凝胶,你还有什么不知道的吗?比如说,科学家正在试图用它捕捉彗星经过的微尘。当(微尘)颗粒猛烈撞击到航空探测器上的气凝胶板时,它们将会自然,从而留下可见的痕迹。因为气凝胶差不多等同于空气,并不会破坏(微尘)颗粒。


女:其实这个我也知道!


【Words & Expressions】


aerogel:气凝胶,又称为干凝胶。是一种固体物质形态,世界上密度最小的固体。当凝胶脱去大部分溶剂,使凝胶中液体含量比固体含量少得多,或凝胶的空间网状结构中充满的介质是气体,外表呈固体状,这即为干凝胶,也称为气凝胶。


slam into:猛烈撞击


space probe:航空探测器




 



n.凝胶物,果冻
  • We have ice cream,pie,cake or jello.我们要冰淇淋、馅饼、蛋糕或是果冻。
  • She likes jello very much.她很喜欢吃果冻。
a.密集的,稠密的,浓密的;密度大的
  • The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。
  • The path was completely covered by the dense foliage. 小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。
学英语单词
AAMIH
anear
astlers
atomic dipole moment
automatic exposure compensation
autoteraploid
Aymores
bank club
Barra do Bugres
barycentric refinement
be overcome with fear
big gray wall
blade pitgh
cervicofacial actinomycosis
cesium(element)
comeuppances
concentric curriculum
damm
dow
down comforter
encoun-tered
fashion dual character
female lamb
fibroma of vagina
filicopsidas
finite arc sine distribution
flexion torsion
formaldehyde treating of gasoline
Frademicina
Gelidocalamus stellatus
goldhagen
guitaba
headless computer
herschell effect
highway tunnel
igneous breccia
in league
Indian berry
issue value
Kayumba, L.
lake baykals
landre
leaf-shapeds
Leshukonskoye
local acceptance
mader
malaria aestivo-autumnalls
mecador chart
mental health
mixed boundary value problem
moonish
moustaphas
multi-shaft arrangement
nasaa
nunation
odai
on-delay time
original beam
Osolē Shet'
P. P. von Mauser
palmar flexion crease
paracaine
park rangers
partial carry
perfect competitive market
phrenopathic
pieve
polar sequence
Policy of Protection in Shipping
PONA number
positively oriented trihedral
postmodernising
Pravoberezhnyy
privileged instruction operation
racecadotril
renoviction
reserved for land expropriation
scenic resort
situation analyzer
sky battle
socioeconomic grade
specific inventory
specification configuration
spot fine
Superfund program
sweep pattern
t-boner
tactism
taper-shank drill
telecine studio
tilt-boat
to the west of
trailing switch machine
transverse springs
tricholoma irinums
Trukese
vertical motion
viand
vibrating rod oiler
Voigt model
Vyshnevolotskaya Gryada
whip shitties