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Title
Step 1: Turn on your mirror….
Abstract
The article focuses on liquid-mirror telescopes. It notes that mercury is the only suitable reflective liquid for spin-table mirrors despite its toxicity. It describes ferrofluid as a suspension of small iron-based particles in some kind of fluid. It also provides information on the liquid mirror experiment conducted by researchers at Université Laval in Québec.