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Grade 10Wave Optics

Uv rays are passed through 2 different obstacles---one made of quartz glass and the other of ordinary glass.will the shadows be of same darkness?why?

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11 Years agoGrade 10
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Profile image of Biswajit Das
11 Years ago
UV is significantly blocked by ordinary glass. But this is not generally true for Silica or quartz glass. Thus the darkness of the shadow will be more in case of ordinary glass than quartz glass.