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What Do You Mean by the Statement 'The Critical Angle for Diamond is 240'?

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What do you mean by the statement 'the critical angle for diamond is 240'?
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The critical angle for diamond is 24o; this indicates that diamond has high refractive index of 2.42. This low value of critical angle facilitates total internal reflection of each light ray entering the diamond at its multiple surfaces.
 
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Chapter 2: Light - Exercise 2.1 ii [Page 89]

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Frank Physics Part 2 [English] Class 10 ICSE
Chapter 2 Light
Exercise 2.1 ii | Q 6 | Page 89

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