cork

• Wedges made from cork are also very light and comfortable to wear - the cork is very shock-absorbent.
• The Current pops like a cork, the world re-inflates and Hardhands is round and substantial again, although now truly bereft. —  FSF, July 2006
• Michael's comparison of Claire in the water to a cork was an apt simile. —  Mary Balogh - An Unacceptable Offer
• The upper side of the jar represents the Russian frontier, across which the invaders had swarmed in and taken possession of the whole inside, lining themselves right along the mouths of the passes at the bottom and across the neck upwards For months the Austrians vainly endeavored to force an entrance through the thickest walls--from the lower edge, and from the base or bottom of the jar (the Bukowina), apparently overlooking the rather obvious proposition that the cork was the softest part and that was Dmitrieff's Dunajec-Biala line. —  The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes
• So that by changing the liquid to one lighter than cork, the cork will sink in it as does iron in water; in the second instance, if we change the liquid to one heavier than iron, the iron will float on it as does cork on water, and exactly as an ordinary flat-iron will float on quicksilver, bobbing up and down like a cork in a tumbler of water. —  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

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