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You can see the reflection of your clearly on a polished table-top is not polished. Explain.
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Solution
We can see the reflection of our face on a polished tabletop because a regular reflection occurs in case of a polished surface while on an unpolished tabletop irregular reflection occurs which makes the image of our face unclear.
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