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As sunlight travels through the earth's atmosphere, it gets scattered by the large number of molecules present in earth's atmosphere. Light of short wavelength is scattered much more than light of longer wavelength. Colour of sky, colour of clouds and colour of sunset and sunrise are the examples of scattering of light.
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