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Whenever electromagnetic radiation of any kind (light, heat, radio, gamma rays and microwaves are all examples of electromagnetic radiation) travels from one medium to another, the radiation will be refracted because the speed of light in each medium is different.
When light travels from air into glass, the glass slows the light down, and the light refracts or "bends" toward the glass, depending on the angle of incidence. (The Angle of Incidence is the angle at which the light hits the glass. ) The amount of refraction (bending) also depends on the wavelength of the radiation, so when sunlight hits the glass at an angle, the glass breaks the "white" light into a rainbow of colors.
This is the same thing that happens with a real rainbow, when light hits water droplets and is refracted and broken into different colors.
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The colour of light which travels through glass with the minimum speed is?
Light does not change speed when it goes through glass.
Can toughened glass be cut?
Any attempt to cut toughened glass will result in the glass shattering into thousands of pieces. The glass needs to be cut before the glass goes through the toughening process.
When light goes into a glass block most is transmitted some does not what happens to it?
Because some rays are reflected or absorbed by the material.
What happens if a plant goes through photosynthesis without carbon dioxide?
It can't.
What happens after blood travels through the pulmonary semilunar valve?
It goes through the pulmonary artery, to the lung. Becomes oxygenated, and goes to the left atrium. It is pumped through the Mitral valve, into the Left Ventricle. Left Ventricle pumps it through the aortic valve to the aorta.
What happens when sunlighht goes through glass?
it will go threw
What happens when you shine light through plain glass?
It goes out the other side.
What happens to the light that doesnt go through glass?
When light hits glass: -- some of it bounces off the glass surface and goes back away from the glass (reflection) -- some of it is absorbed into the glass and never heard from again (absorption) -- some of it goes through the glass and comes out the other side (transmission).
What happens if a vampire goes out in the sunlight?
They turn to ash
What goes and goes and never gets to the door?
Sunlight through the window.
Is all glass transparent?
Take into account that there are more than 3 stages of matter, and glass happens to be its own state of matter. By definition, glass is anything that goes through a "glass transition". Rubber happens to go through one in its solid state (meaning it can shatter and not stretch if it gets too cold). Thus, since rubber is a glass, not all glass is transparent.
What happens if glass if not recycled?
It goes to the dump/landfill.
What happens if glass is not recycled?
It goes to the dump/landfill.
What happens to food coloring as it goes into a glass of water?
It mixes.
The colour of light which travels through glass with the minimum speed is?
Light does not change speed when it goes through glass.
What happens in water droplets to cause rainbows?
The thing that happens in water droplets to cause rainbows is the light shines through it. rainbow9897654321: it is a prism that make it white is made of all color it reflects for the droplet when i goes through the glass its a rain bow that is filled with water its a experiment but you got to put it in the sun with a glass filled with water
When you melt glass the glass changes from a solid to a liquid. When the heat source is removed and the melted glass is allowed to cool it changes back into a solid?
Yes, this is true. Heated glass goes through both a chemical and physical change. As it cools, it again goes through both a chemical and physical change.Consider the types of changes that the substance "glass" goes through during glassblowing. This is a wonderful video from the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio.
