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Give Reason: When You Enter into a Dark Room from Bright Because Sunlight, You Can Not See Things for a Few Second.

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Give Reason:

When you enter into a dark room from bright because of sunlight, you can not see things for a few seconds.

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Solution

In bright light the visual purple or rhodopsin pigment is destroyed and the diameter of the pupil is reduced to allow the entry of less light.

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