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The interesting properties of a concave mirror

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Professor and author Ron Iipschman shows some of the impressive qualities of a concave mirror at the Exploratorium Museum guests in San Francisco. The great mirror is part of the exhibit "seeing and hearing" in the Museum's Gallery.

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