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Re: hoaxes



"(He also is wrong when he says that clouds are dark because they are
absorbing more light)"



One may obtain polystyrene beads (for microscopy calibration) in varying sizes
(suspended in alcohol) e.g. 0.09 => 1.1 micron [
http://www.pelcoint.com/calibrat_html/TEM2.htm ]

for a reasonable price for such experimentation.

bc who used them for Brownian motion experiment

p.s. why are they dark? (sometimes)

Larry Woolf wrote:

Hewitt: "A cloud is composed of a variety of droplet sizes. The tiniest
scatter blue, slightly larger scatter green, and still larger scatter reds.
The overall result is a white cloud."

This is mistake, not a hoax.

(He also is wrong when he says that clouds are dark because they are
absorbing more light)


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