Why do diamonds sparkle?
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- When light travels from an optically dense medium to a rare medium at the interface. it gets partially reflected back into the denser medium and partially reflected into the rare medium. This is known as internal reflection.
- Beyond a certain angle for a medium, the light will not pass through but will get reflected back into the medium. This angle is known as the critical angle and beyond which total internal reflection takes place.
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