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A transparent material one that allows light to pass through with little absorption or distortion. If there is distortion, one might use the term translucent instead of transparent.
More technically, one refers to a materials as being able to transmit light for a particular range of color as being transparent in that color range. Water is transparent for light in the range that the human eye can detect, but just outside that range, it becomes highly absorptive and would, if we could see, appear black. This is generally true for glass, air, salt and other materials which we would nominally characterize as transparent. Objects that absorb in a portion of the visible spectrum will transmit light
that is a color formed from the portion of the spectrum that is not absorbed (portion that is transarent).
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What type of material always lets light pass through it?
Transparent materials will always allow light to pass through, translucent materials will allow light to pass through as well but the light rays will be scattered. Opaque materials will not allow any light to pass through.
Is smoke is transparent?
No, smoke is not considered a transparent medium because it does not transmit rays of light through it. An example of a transparent medium would be glass.
What happens to light rays as they pass through transparent minerals?
They bend or refract
What is the base meaning of transparent?
Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque., Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil.
What causes light rays to bend when they enter a new medium at an angle?
Light rays bend when they enter a new medium at an angle because they either slow down or speed up. They speed up the most if they are in a vacuum.
How do you use light rays in a sentence?
Refraction is the bending of light rays when passing from one transparent material to another.
What happens to light rays as they pass from one transparent material to another?
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What do light rays do as they pass from one transparent material from another?
They refract.When light passes from one transparent medium to another then the light ray refract or we can say it deviate from its straight path.
Do light rays reflect or refract when they hit a concave mirror?
refracts light waves
Does a convex lens refracts light rays and brings them into focus?
yes
What happens to light rays when it passes from one substance to another?
Assuming you're talking about transparent substances... It bends (refracts). The amount depends on the difference between the refractive index of each substance.
Does diamond give out light?
A diamond reflects and refracts rays of existing light. A diamond will not emanate like on its own.
What type of material always lets light pass through it?
Transparent materials will always allow light to pass through, translucent materials will allow light to pass through as well but the light rays will be scattered. Opaque materials will not allow any light to pass through.
Curved glass that bends light rays?
A lens is a curved glass that refracts or bends light rays. The two principal types of lenses are convex and concave.
What part of your eye refracts light?
The retina which is where the image from the eye lens is focused. The retina is the reflective part of the eye. That's why cat's eye reflect so well, their retina are more exposed in the night because their pupils (or whatever they are in a cat) open wider than ours exposing more of that mirror at the back, the retina. Meeow!
Under what conditions will light rays pass from one transparent material to another without bending?
The refractive index of both materials would have to be the same value.
What happens to light rays as it travels from the transparent glass of air?
prism
