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| Nov 27, 2018 at 19:26 | comment | added | user608672 | So metal heats up easily...but reflects infrared...which is often a means of transmitting heat. Something isn't adding up here. | |
| Nov 27, 2018 at 4:35 | comment | added | safesphere | You may want to add to the answer that a vacuum inside means a very strong atmospheric pressure on the walls. A container made of a softer material would be crushed by the pressure. Also the reason why a metal is used is that it reflects infrared like a mirror. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 17:39 | history | answered | joshuaronis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |