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Why is salt water clear?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Salt or sodium chloride dissolves when subjected to water. The reason that it is clear is since photons from light do not collide with the electrons from the salt water and resonate back light (this causes the shiny surfaces of metals). So light passes through the solution and is hardly by the ions and water.

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