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Question
When sunlight enters the earth’s atmosphere, state which colour of light is scattered
- the most and
- which the least.
Solution
Violet colour is scattered the most and red the least, as the intensity of scattered light is found to be inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength of light.
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