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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

how can we explain the tyndall effect involved in the visibility of tails of comets???

Profile image of Induja Samudrala
9 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
This can be best explained by the Rayleigh Scattering phenomena.
As the intensity of falling light would be the inversely proprtional to the fourth power of the wavelength.
Theerfore, in suspension an therfore the violet or the blue colr spreads the most.