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To: TexasGator

“Read the article”

I did. Still don’t get it. How can it reflect more energy than impinges on it?


10 posted on 07/05/2024 5:05:58 PM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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To: cymbeline

I did. Still don’t get it. How can it reflect more energy than impinges on it?=

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Did you ever play with a “Super Ball”? They seemed to do that.


15 posted on 07/05/2024 5:15:55 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: cymbeline

“”I did. Still don’t get it. How can it reflect more energy than impinges on it?”

It doesn’t. The article refers to the visible light spectrum.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoluminescence


17 posted on 07/05/2024 5:22:59 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: cymbeline

Maybe it’s engineered to reflect nearly 100% of direct light, but absorbs the cool to combine to 104%?


20 posted on 07/05/2024 5:26:46 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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