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What is Rayleigh elastic scattering? |
| Answer» Rayleigh scattering\xa0is the elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light. Elastic scattering means that incident wavelength and scattered wavelength are the same.\xa0Rayleigh scattering is inversely proportional to the fourth power of wavelength, which means that the shorter wavelength of blue light will scatter more than the longer wavelengths of green and red light. This gives the sky a blue appearance. | |