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Liquid mirror — Liquid mirrors are mirrors made with reflective liquids. The most common liquid used is mercury, but other liquids will work as well (for example, low melting alloys of gallium). Liquid mirrors can be a low cost alternative to conventional large… … Wikipedia
Liquid mirror space telescope — A liquid mirror space telescope is a concept for a type of reflecting space telescope which uses a reflecting liquid such as mercury as its primary reflector.[1] There are several designs for such a telescope: 1. Twirled Pail: A pair of objects,… … Wikipedia
liquid mirror telescope — noun A type of reflecting telescope employing a parabolic liquid mirror made by spinning a pool of reflective liquid … Wiktionary
Liquid Mirror Telescope — 49.287583333333 122.572777777787 DEC … Deutsch Wikipedia
liquid crystal display — n. LCD * * * ▪ electronics Introduction electronic display device that operates by applying a varying electric voltage to a layer of liquid crystal, thereby inducing changes in its optical properties. LCDs are commonly used for portable… … Universalium
Mirror — looking glass redirects here. For other uses, see Looking Glass (disambiguation). This article is about wave reflectors (mainly, specular reflection of visible light). For other uses, see Mirror (disambiguation). A mirror, reflecting a vase A… … Wikipedia
Liquid Television — infobox Television show name = Liquid Television caption = rating = TV 14 format = Animated television series runtime = 30 minutes creator = voices = country = United States network = MTV first aired = June 2, 1991 last aired = March 6, 1994 num… … Wikipedia
liquid-crystaldisplay — liq·uid crys·tal display (lĭkʹwĭd krĭsʹtəl) top: When turned off, polarized light reflects off a mirror, passes through the liquid crystal layer,and leaves the display looking white. bottom: When turned on, polarized light is blocked by the rear… … Universalium
Ionic liquid — An ionic liquid is a liquid that contains essentially only ions. Some ionic liquids, such as ethylammonium nitrate are in a dynamic equilibrium where at any time more than 99.99% of the liquid is made up of ionic rather than molecular species. In … Wikipedia
Mercury mirror — can mean: A glass mirror created by Mercury silvering Mercury glass mirror. A component of liquid mirror telescopes This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an … Wikipedia
