Aerogel Glass has many advantages but it is far less than ordinary glass: such as thermal stability and thermal shock resistance than quartz glass, even if put it into water in the high temperature of 1300 ℃,it will not break; Its proportion is very small, only 0.07-0.25g / cm3, is a few tenths of ordinary glass; It has a better thermal insulation than mineral wool; It does not burn because has fireproof coating ,is a good fireproof material; Also it has good sound insulation performance, higher than the average metal and glass more than 4 times, The intermediate product of aerogel glass is an aerogel. The earliest aerogels are separated from the silica gel. Of course, it can also be obtained from other materials. For example, aerogel can be obtained  from corundum, tungsten, iron oxide, zinc oxide, tin oxide, cellulose, nitrocellulose, animal gels, agar, protein, and gum. Aerogel Glass was first developed by the European Nuclear Research Center in Geneva in 1977. Later, the Sweden Lutgersk University also began to develop.

Aerogel Glass can be widely used in modern technology and high-tech fields: such as used to do aerospace, navigation glimpse of the window; instead of the car’s tempered glass; in the field of atomic energy and laser as a structural material that can be transmitted through various rays and optical elements such as precision optical instruments and so on. In a word, it can replace ordinary glass, plexiglass, plastic and can be competent in the three other areas of talent to show their talents, although in the shape, transparency and dyeing similar to ordinary glass.

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