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What happens when light is refracted?

It is taken up by an object.
It is bent as it goes through an object.
It is bounced off the surface of an object.
It is destroyed when it strikes an object.

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User Bolt UIX
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Answer:

the light is refracted (or bent) towards the normal

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User Rick Copeland
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Answer:

When light passes from a less dense to a more dense substance, (for example passing from air into water), the light is refracted (or bent) towards the normal. The normal is a line perpendicular (forming a 90 degree angle) to the boundary between the two substances)

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So I think it's B

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