He had handled the "memory material" which he described as "thin foil that kept its shape."
The most successful public domain designs use thin foil hinges in a clamp.
The more malleable a metal, the thinner foil can be made with it.
It was silver, a meter square, made of two sheets of thin foil sandwiched together.
Samia received the thin translucent foil with its red lettering.
Conditions/substances to avoid are: heat, moisture, acids, flame and thin foils.
They are produced from thin foils or metal films.
Statistically, the centers of the atoms in a thin foil can be considered as points evenly distributed over a plane.
Then he jabbed the point through and cut a ragged hole in the thin foil.
Like metal pounded to a thin foil, spreading in distance but not compromising its strength.