Transparent having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly and allowing the passage of a specified…

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM, an abbreviation which can also stand for the instrument, a transmission electron microscope) is a microscopy technique in which a beam…

A material is translucent is to say that light may pass through that material, but images on the other side of that material are not…

In stereochemistry, stereoisomerism, or spatial isomerism, is a form of isomerism in which molecules have the same molecular formula and sequence of bonded atoms (constitution),…

Refraction of light refers to the change in direction of a ray of light when it travels from one medium to another. For example, the…

When a ray of light falls on any object (polished, smooth, shiny object), light from that object bounces back those rays of light to our…

A photon is a particle of light defined as a discrete bundle (or quantum) of electromagnetic (or light) energy. Photons are always in motion and,…

A  photomicrograph is a photograph or digital image taken through a microscope or similar device to show a magnified image of an object. This is…

Phosphorescence is luminescence that occurs when energy is supplied by electromagnetic radiation, usually ultraviolet light. The energy source kicks an electron of an atom from…

An optical fiber is a flexible, transparent strand of very pure glass that acts as a light pipe to transmit light between two ends of…