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Categories: Atmospheric optical phenomena, Light, Scientific phenomena, Concepts in physics, Articles with short description
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Rayleigh scattering  Molecular scattering  Raghley scattering  Ralegh scattering  Raleigh scattering
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Rayleigh scattering, named after the 19th-century British physicist Lord Rayleigh, is the predominantly elastic scattering of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles with a size much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation. Wikipedia
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Rayleigh scattering, named after the 19th-century British physicist Lord Rayleigh, is the predominantly elastic scattering of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles with a size much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation. Wikipedia
The elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light. Wiktionary
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Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in a clear atmosphere is the main reason why the sky is blue. Wiktionary
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Molecular scattering, Raghley scattering, Ralegh scattering, Raleigh scattering, Rayleigh's scattering law, Rayleigh-Brillouin scattering, Rayleigh light scattering, Rayleigh Scattering

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