Syntactic foam is a solid buoyancy material — hollow glass microspheres bound in epoxy. Unlike an air void it does not collapse with depth, so we use it to trim the vehicle toward neutral buoyancy and to fill non-pressure volumes.
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Syntactic Foam
Buoyancy you can machine: glass microspheres in epoxy that float but don't crush.
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