Archived Boeing says it created lightest metal ever (money.cnn.com)
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Archived Boeing says it created lightest metal ever (money.cnn.com)
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[–] leshake 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
"Boeing describes the new microlattice as an "open cellular polymer structure."
That's not a metal, it's a polymer. Furthermore it sounds like aerogel, which was invented in 1931.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel
That picture is probably inaccurate as well.