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4th Jun 2010, 07:47

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Whiskey Papa

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Will not the dust particles be at ambient air temperature, thus invisible to IR? These minute particles have no internal heat source and no heat storage capacity do they? Or is sunlight reflected off them? In which case will it work at night?

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