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Tyndall effect: a standalone construct

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Optics

the scattering of light by fine particles suspended in a medium, making a beam visible and producing bluish, polarized scattered light.

In optics, Tyndall effect refers to the scattering of light by fine particles suspended in a medium, making a beam visible and producing bluish, polarized scattered light. This meaning comes from Tyndall (1869) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.[1]

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References

Tyndall, J. (1869). IV. On the blue colour of the sky, the polarization of skylight, and on the polarization of light by cloudy matter generally. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 223-233. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1868.0033

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