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The invention of these materials was supposedly the result of a bet between Samuel Kistler and Charles Learned over removing liquid from jelly and replacing it with gas without shrinkage. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these ultralight materials whose low thermal conductivity and density make them useful as dust collectors in spacecraft.
ANSWER: aerogels [accept solid smokes or frozen smokes; prompt on gels; prompt on colloids or colloidal suspensions or colloidal dispersions]
[10e] Liquid can be removed from aerogels via a form of drying that places the aerogel into a pressurized autoclave until it reaches this state. Substances in this state exist beyond the point where gases and liquids exist in distinct phases.
ANSWER: supercritical fluid [accept supercritical drying; prompt on critical point]
[10h] Silica aerogels are often produced by variations of this sol-gel process used to produce silica particles. It involves hydrolysis of TEOS in alcohol followed by condensation of the resulting ethoxy·silanols.
ANSWER: Stöber process
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chicago AWinona State10101030MEH
Cornell AVanderbilt010010E
Georgia StateUCF100010M
HarvardNorth Carolina A100010M
Illinois ARutgers1010020ME
Illinois BCornell B1010020ME
IndianaFlorida1010020ME
Johns HopkinsOhio State1010020ME
MichiganWUSTL B1010020ME
MinnesotaBritish Columbia100010M
NYURIT010010E
NorthwesternUC Berkeley B1010020ME
OttawaLSE1010020ME
TexasArizona State1010020ME
Toronto AColumbia B10101030MEH
Toronto CPenn State1010020ME
UC Berkeley AGeorgia Tech1010020ME
VirginiaChicago B1010020ME
Virginia TechStanford100010M
Waterloo BNorth Carolina B1010020ME
YaleIowa State1010020ME

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2118.1081%91%10%