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space blanket
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space blanket
n
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Mountaineering) a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc., for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
[material originally developed as part of the US space programme]
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