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If you put a straw into a glass of water, the straw looks bent, although nothing has really happened to the straw. The term that describes this property of light is
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If you put a straw into a glass of water, the straw looks bent, although nothing has really happened to the straw. The term that describes this property of light is

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Refraction: the fact or phenomenon of light, radio waves, etc. being deflected in passing obliquely through the interface between one medium and another or through a medium of varying density.
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If you put a straw into a glass of water, the straw looks bent, although nothing has really happened to the straw. The term that describes this property of light is

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