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The light energy is scattered, creating a diffuse glow that seldom casts clear shadows, because the light is coming from several different angles, over a wide area of the material.

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Q: What happens when light interacts with a translucent material?
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What happens to the color of light that are not transmitted through a transparent or a translucent material?

they reflected


What happens to the colors of light that are not transmitted through a transmitted or a translucent material?

they reflected


What materials is a translucent?

A translucent material is a material which light can pass through.


What does translucent material do?

Translucent materials allows light to pass through it. Windows is a translucent material because it allows light to pass through it


What does translucent material?

Translucent materials allows light to pass through it. Windows is a translucent material because it allows light to pass through it


Is light a translucent material?

Light is not a material. Material things have mass and light has no mass.


A material that only lets some light through?

There are many materials that light can not travel through which are called opaque objects.


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What is a material through which light cannot pass?

translucent


What happens to light as it interacts with matter?

it scatters


A material that does not let light pass through is called?

An opaque material.


What happens when light strikes translucent material?

-- A portion of the light energy reflects back from the surface of the material. -- A portion of thelight energy is absorbed into the material and never seen again. -- The remainder of the light energy proceeds on through the material and emerges unbowed and undeterred from the other side.