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A plant grower has a greenhouse where she grows plants in the winter the greenhouse is exposed to direct sunlight and often gets too hot for the plants to paint the inside of the glass with a chalky white paint and the temperature drops too comfortable level explain why this procedure works

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The white paint mirrors the sunlight with the goal that it does not go into the greenhouse where it could be caught as heat. Plants require sunlight light to develop, however, it will transform the grower's greenhouse into an oven.
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