To mimic the curved spine of the poet, who died in 1999, he designed a foam sphere that he put under his back.

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The problem is at the back of the fridge where there is a large amount of foam insulation, which is highly flammable.

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Patrick's car careened back into David Ragan, flipping her hood over the windshield and shredding the left front fender as protective foam from the driver's side door flew onto the track.

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Using cross links within the foam's particle arrangement, regardless of how much the structure is compressed, it'll spring back to the predesigned shape.

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The rest of the vertical column is made from a material called syntactic foam - a solid made mostly of hollow "microballoons" - giving it enough buoyancy to float back up.

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