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Light can normally not pass through metals. The electron clouds are so dense that all photons are absorbed or reflected.

Caveat:Gold can be hammered into such a thin sheet (only a few atoms thick) that the Sun appears green through the thin foil!
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Yes. Take a 1-foot-long metal rod and touch one end to a hot object (don't try it in practice). You can feel the temperature rising on the other end. Better yet, after a car is driven for a few miles, touch the surface of the hood. It is hot.

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Yes. It can pass through some crystals as well as air and other gases.

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Yes. If it couldn't, then shining a flashlight at the wall

in a lighted room would cast a shadow on the floor.

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It goes from atom to atom extremely fast.

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It depends on density.

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Why the light is not matter?

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Matter that allows light to pass through without being scattered is said to be what?

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What term describes matter that allows light to pass through without being scattered?

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