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Re:What Is Glitter? by knodi123 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @06:14PM (#18743038)
Chaff is a little different. For instance, most glitter is plastic, and plastic wouldn't do any good against radar. Here's what it really looks like:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Usnchaff...

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Re:What Is Glitter? by trevyn on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:33PM (#18743784)
But but metallized plastic!

Yup, wiki says it can be metallized plastic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure)

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