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An unpolarised light is incident on a surface separating two transparent media of different optical densities at the polarizing angle. Then the reflected ray and refracted ray are

A

parallel to each other

B

perpendicular to each other

C

inclined to each other making an angle `45^(@)`

D

none of these

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