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The Solar Reflectance of Stainless Steel
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ment a s well a s the construction i ndustry.
Which ultimately led us to Dr. McGuire, we
thought it was best to have more of an inde-
pendent viewpoint on the topic."
Dr. Michael McGuire, PHD in Metallurgi-
cal Engineering, was b rought i n to f urther
in both functionality for the building itself as
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ing the qualities of metal in greater detail, Dr.
paints and organic materials, they do not ac-
metals are covered with a thick enough oxide
that when they're hit by light, they absorb all
the energy."
"Stainless steel is very unusual in that it's ox-
ide layer is only a few atoms of oxygen thick,"
Dr. McGuire continues. "So it acts like a bare
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ergy that's beamed at it, whether it be a radio