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This stabilized foamed aluminum is used to create strong yet lightweight panels. Similar in appearance to a hard, metallic sponge, it is visually striking.
Color-changing dyes and additives have been offered in paper, plastic, and textiles for some time, but this product takes the idea into a new area: glass tiles.
Paper-thin wires used to transmit electrical power, speaker signals, TV signals, and computer data. They're a drop-in replacement for traditional round wiring.
What if you could smash your hand through glass without sustaining any injuries? With Rubber Glass, you can create special effects that simulate glass without the danger.
It's difficult to tell in the picture, but the small square of graphite is levitating a few millimeters above the magnets. Does not require any power source; it will continue indefinitely.
Highly Reflective Transparent Glass
This version of the Transparent Mirror Glass is made using a optical interference coated, low iron glass to achieve higher clarity and slightly higher reflectance.
This concrete tile allows light to pass through. Contains optical fibers that make up about 5% of its surface area. Allows an outline to be clearly visible on the other side.
$134.50
This film is a clear sheet with a transparent but electrically-conductive coating acting as invisible wiring. It is designed to be laminated between two sheets of glass.
$140.51
This glass absorbs sunlight like a sponge. In the dark, it radiates a blue/green light for more than an hour after being exposed to light for only 20 minutes.
$227.00
Super absorbent polymer spheres
When placed in warm water for 2 hours, they swell up to several times their size and turn into clear little spheres. They even bounce when you throw them on the floor.
This heat-shielding product (spray-on gel or paste) can temporarily shield virtually any solid material from temperatures up to an incredible 7500 °F (4100 °C).
This hand moldable plastic has a melting temperature of about 136-140°F. It's great for making one-off prototypes, impressions to use as a temporary mold, and more.
This unique magnet is soft and squeezable to the touch. In every other way it's like a normal magnet. Created by mixing ferrite particles with a polyethylene gel.
Temperature-Sensitive Flexible Sheets
These sheets are a thermochromic, ready to use, flexible vinyl material that is coated with liquid crystal and then covered with a clear polyester over laminate.
Magnetic + Translucent Metal Foil
This is steel foil that has been made translucent. It feels heavier than the aluminum foil and when you catch the light the right way you can see through it.
$265.00
An electrically conductive water-based paint that can be used to paint wires onto things like models, clothes, furniture, walls, almost anything you can think of.
$24.95
Magnetic fluid, or ferrofluid, is normally a thick, black-brown liquid, but in the presence of a magnetic field it instantly responds.
Uranium Ore Radiation Range 'F'
Uranium Ore samples in the 12,000 to 15,000 CPM radiation range samples are excellent general purpose radiation sources for a variety of experiments.
This material is a temperature sensitive additive applied to a 2oz brushed polyester film. The film is waterproof, temperature sensitive, and color changing.
This is a wax that turns directly from a solid to a gas without ever softening. If you leave a blob of this wax on your desk it will fully disappear in a few weeks.
A 1 oz. rolled copper foil which provides excellent solderability and conformity. Used for RFI/EMI shielding applications in the electrical/electronics industry.
Temperature Regulating Material
Absorbs heat when the temperature rises; releases heat when it falls. Phase Change Materials are used to regulate temperature around a specific transition temperature.
A type of Velcro that conducts electricity. You can see in the picture, the electricity is running through the two pieces stuck together and lighting the bulb.
Reveals itself only under UV light. With a UV light (black light), this coating will glow and you can tell if you missed a spot.