Air is transparent when you sit in the woods and look up to see the milky way. Then the wind shifts and the pollution rolls in. Starlight no longer illuminates your path. Whereas before you saw all the stars on the star chart, now you see only the brightest. Whereas you could previously make out the shapes of trees, now only artificial light cuts through the darkness. The air has become translucent.
Then fog rolls through. You can no longer see the man made lights off in the distance. The atmosphere is now opaque.
Kamererite is a translucent to opaque mineral with a pearly to vitreous luster. It is not considered to be transparent.
Yes. Diamond is made of carbon, and many plastics also contain carbon. Polystryene, polycarbonate and many other plastics are also transparent, while mercury (a liquid) is not. It's to do with the atomic/ molecular structure, and whether the molecular structure allows light transmission.
Yes, starch solution is typically transparent when it is freshly prepared. However, when heated or exposed to certain conditions, it can change to a translucent or opaque appearance due to gelatinization or retrogradation.
Sheets of polythene like meat wrappings are obviously transparent. Thicker ayers can be translucent and almost opaque.
Birthstones come in a variety of forms, some of which are translucent. For example, diamond, emerald, and aquamarine are birthstones that are commonly translucent. However, not all birthstones are translucent, as some like garnet and onyx are opaque or transparent.
Aluminum foil is opaque.
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Transparent.
No, it's translucent.
Transparent
All three ; the front is a mix of transparent & translucent and the back (where the photo-receptor dyes are) is opaque.
It is opaque
Opaque.
no