The Colour of Scattered Light Depends on the Size of Scattering Particles

The Colour of Scattered Light Depends on the Size of Scattering Particles

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The earth’s atmosphere is a heterogeneous mixture of minute particles. These particles include suspended particles of dust, tiny water droplets and molecules of air (the molecules of air means the molecules of
gases like nitrogen and oxygen which make up the air). When light coming from the sun strikes the particles present in the atmosphere (or air), then what happens to the light depends on its wavelength and the size
of the particles it hits. This will become clear from the following discussion.

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