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Maybe this is a trick question, but why wouldn't it float?
Because there could still be too much of the solid part for it to have a density less than air's?
edit: i suspect it would float for a little bit before the lighter gas diffuses out
Wikipedia says
So the evacuated version with 1mg should rise since air is 1.2mg.
Googling, I see one or two YouTube videos of aerogel floating in air. SEAgel apparently is sometimes used this way:
edit: i suspect it would float, but only for a little bit before the lighter gas diffuses out.