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What is the difference between absorption, diffraction, and transmission?

What is the difference between absorption, diffraction, and transmission?-example-1
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The main difference between the three is that absorption measures how much of an incident light is absorbed when it travels in a material, transmission measures how much of the light is transmitted, and diffraction is the spreading of waves around obstacles.

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