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duncang

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4. Yeah
Mon May 1, 2017, 07:59 AM
May 2017

When I first wrote this I put adsorb. But since they used block in the article went ahead and used that. Only reason I could think they might of used it was they were trying to say it blocked the return of light. That to me isn't a good way of describing it. Wikipedia does have to me a better explanation of how it works and does use deflected inside the nanotubes then eventually adsorbing the light changing it to heat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

How black is black [View all] duncang May 2017 OP
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