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Why are some things transparent?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Effects of Doping on Glass

Glass is not transparent to UV. The same way it is to visible light. It absorbs a lot more of the UV. Is that kind of what's going on with sunscreens? Like lotion, right? Your sunscreen is just opaque to UV. But glass has stuff in it that could accept those photons and absorb it rather than letting them pass into your body and then cause damage.

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