[ATM] Astronomium Metal Mirror

["Jeremy Batterson" <jdbaterson@msn.com>]

Was talking about unusual ideas with Charles Hughes again, and what came up this time was metal mirrors. Hughes told me there was a debate decades back about finding a perfect metal, to be called ASTRONOMIUM, ideal for mirror making:

Being soft enough to grind easily, having a low melting point, being highly reflective, resilient & NON-CORROSIVE. Lightness is another useful quality, and also cost. The most obvious advantage is that you need not SILVER such a mirror.

Did you try ALUMINUM? That nearly fits the bill, it seems to me.

Jeremy D. Batterson
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