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Word: fractions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make bigger and better mirrors for the telescopes. Glass, which has long been used for the smaller mirrors, is almost out of the question for a really large project. The reason for this is that the surface curvature of these reflectors must be correct down to a fraction somewhere between a quarter to a half millionth of an inch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Advances a New Theory of Time, Distance | 1/4/1930 | See Source »

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