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Polarized light



>From: George Booth <booth at frii_com>
>Subject: Re: Weird light
>
>I was browsing rec.aquaia.freshwater.plants recently and came across this:

Slumming again George ?

>>mkaczur at earthlink_net wrote:
>>>
>>> I started reflecting sun with a mirror to my plant aquarium.   Will
>>> reflecting the sun with a mirror be benificial to the plants???    My
>>> aquarium is a 30 gallon tall with two 20 watt tubes.     Michael
>>
>>No, reflecting sunlight from a mirror changes the polarity of the light.
>>The reversed polarity may kill the plants.
>
>Holy cow, I never thought of this. Is it possible? 

Of coruse it is. Everybody knows you have to use two mirrors to
unpolarize the light back to normal.

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