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
AAGC
Aeschynomene americana
Allium schoenoprasum L.
amalgam plugger
application-development language
artificial stocking
bandage gauze
bat ribbon
binary synchronous device data block
bind-days
boysen berry
Brissaud's dwarf
chemical anticarcinogenic drug
chemoconvulsant
cherryville
Chrysomelidae
concolor
counter sample
cupids
dichloramine
disodic alkaliine
drill-sharpening machine
Echogynography
ecotonal
electrochemistry at liquid-liquid interface
electronic sign
Entale
extraneous term
fenoxazoline
fine ream
foamed polystyrene chaplet
garage shop
genus epipactiss
genus Sagina
gleewoman
haroutounian
heteropolyanion
homotopy type invariant
hot-finished material
Idb-1016
idea champions
incomplete compaction
injurious weed
isolar
jet cutting car
junta
ketchuppy
leptosols
load bearing characteristic
magnetization curve
medicinal perfume
methyl-1-testosterone
Midgard, Midgarth
mikester
military characteristics
monkey bread
moon trefoils
motor timer
mulesing
multiple-reclosing breaker
nuclear-level density
off-set seismic operation
optical fiber source
oral traditions
overfarm
overparameterize
oximctry
parachute troops
partial cracking
piston ring groove cleaner
Ponte di Legno
portal-type frame
pre-established harmony
quicktongued
ranque
rascally
salvage and salvage charge
sharpness of vision
Ship's Sinking
sovann
spiroplasma
Spy Wednesday
stamate
teleprocessor
Theilman
thiocolchicine
thread fasteners
tibetan high
Tiedemann's nerve
to pop the question
Transdanubia
trial by media
unstainable
vapor compression refrigerating machine
vertimeter
VWAP
Waddingworth
West Midland
wet snow
wet-chemical technique
white walnuts
wood pattern