[nitrogen]

I want to emphasize how strange a piece of aerogel is to hold. The aerogel fragments I've seen were cylindrical, and looked exactly like bits of hot glue sticks. However, it feels nothing like a hot glue stick. Touching this particular aerogel was like touching a lighter, fluffier, finer grained version of styrofoam, almost like the cotton candy to styrofoam's unleavened bread. The aerogel is also ridiculously low-mass, so it seems to require no effort to hold or move around. It's something that must be experienced.