Polar bear fur transparent
NZPA-Reuter Moscow Soviet scientists have discovered that the fur of polar bears is not white but transparent, the youth daily, "Komsomolskaya Pravda,” reported. It looked white because the hollow, colourless hairs reflected sunlight on to the bear’s hide. “The fur concentrates
dispersed ultra-violet radiation and every hair, directing that radiation at the perfect right angle to the surface of the animal’s hide, works as a, sort of lens,” the newspaper said. The hide, converting solar energy into heat, was a perfect prototype of a solar power station, it said.
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Press, 3 September 1986, Page 26
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