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Wow! This new metal - which is 99.9 percent air - is so light that it can sit atop dandelion fluff without damaging it.It was developed by a team of researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology and is about one hundred times lighter than Styrofoam.

Wow! This new metal - which is 99.9 percent air - is so light that it can sit atop dandelion fluff without damaging it.

It was developed by a team of researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology and is about one hundred times lighter than Styrofoam.

Source: today.uci.edu

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