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Question
What is atmospheric refraction? What causes atmospheric refraction?
Solution
The refraction of light caused by the earth's atmosphere is called atmospheric refraction. Atmospheric refraction is caused by the bending of light rays when they pass through the layers of the earth's atmosphere, which are of different optical densities.
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