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@phosphor fun fact: the same liquid crystal is also used for thermal debugging of semiconductor devices! If you put a thin layer of specially formulated liquid crystal on top of the faulty device and look at it through cross-polarized filters, any hot spots will turn dark as the liquid crystal becomes transparent (and stops rotating the illumination's polarization, so the reflected light gets blocked by the filter)
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