Been thinking about telling someone with blue eyes about the concept of "structural coloration" "The color of your eyes is fascinating because it's the result of the scattering of pure white light Your eyes are blue the same way the sky is blue, or the sea" "Aww"
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I know (at least that Rayleigh is air), but I was in the middle of something and didn't have time to look it up.
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Isn't it also Rayleigh scattering in milk though? [like, if you shine a beam of light directly through milk, I know it's *mostly* opaque]
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They're more-or-less the same thing; Tyndall scattering is the effect as seen in a colloid or suspension, Rayleigh scattering is the effect as seen in air, but the mechanism of both is the same.
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