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2. Retroglo - Wikipedia

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   Retroglo is composed of 50,000 minute glass beads per square inch. The material is retroreflective, meaning it reflects light back to a light source, such as toward a car's headlights. The glass beads used in Retroglo are much smaller than the beads used in reflective road surface marking paint used on highways. Retroglo can be woven, braided ...

3. Retroreflective sheeting - Wikipedia

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   Flash photo of car with reflective stickers Flash photo of moped with retroreflective sheeting tape Retroreflective sheeting is flexible retroreflective material primarily used to increase the nighttime conspicuity of traffic signs , high-visibility clothing , and other items so they are safely and effectively visible in the light of an ...

4. Insulative paint - Wikipedia

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   Insulative paints, or insulating paints, are a specially designed type of paint in which can be used to coat a surface (e.g a wall) to reduce heat transfer as well as increase the thermal insulating property (R-value in order to aid cooling and heating efforts for example [1].

5. High-visibility clothing - Wikipedia

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   A police officer in Taiwan wears a white motorcycle helmet in conjunction with a high-visibility vest. According to a 2004 study, the wearing of reflective or fluorescent clothing correlated with a 37 percent lower risk of a rider sustaining a crash-related injury; likewise, white helmets demonstrated a 24 percent reduction.

6. Optical coating - Wikipedia

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   One type of optical coating is an anti-reflective coating, which reduces unwanted reflections from surfaces, and is commonly used on spectacle and camera lenses. Another type is the high-reflector coating , which can be used to produce mirrors that reflect greater than 99.99% of the light that falls on them.

7. Overhead projector - Wikipedia

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   Appeldorn developed a process for the projection of transparent sheets that led to 3M's first marketable transparency film. The Strategic Air Command base in Omaha was one of the first big clients, using circa 20,000 sheets per month. 3M then decided to develop their own overhead projector instead of the one they had been selling until then ...