And when its aluminium coating is replaced with silver in a year or two's time (a huge vacuum-chamber housed at the telescope's base will be used to deposit metallic vapour on to the mirror's reflecting surface), it will be able to see into the infra-red with equal clarity, opening up a much neglected area of astronomy.

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The base station simulator should have been also sitting outside the chamber and had a calibrated antenna plumbed to it from inside the chamber.

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The transistor itself is composed of a single phosphorous-31 isotope, which has been precisely placed on a base of silicon using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope in an ultra-high vacuum chamber.

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As a political outsider, he threatens the established support base of the main parties especially the Social Christians, with 25 seats and the presidency of the chamber and none of them wants to see his government succeed.

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