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179:. In the 1860s, Tyndall did a number of experiments with light, shining beams through various gases and liquids and recording the results. In doing so, Tyndall discovered that when gradually filling the tube with smoke and then shining a beam of light through it, the beam appeared to be blue from the sides of the tube but red from the far end. This observation enabled Tyndall to first propose the phenomenon which would later bear his name.
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is defined by a mathematical formula that requires the light-scattering particles to be far smaller than the wavelength of the light. For a dispersion of particles to qualify for the
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particles are bigger and are in the rough vicinity of the size of a wavelength of light. Tyndall scattering, i.e. colloidal particle scattering, is much more intense than
Rayleigh scattering due to the bigger particle sizes involved. The importance of the particle size factor for intensity can be
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Scattering takes place to a greater extent at shorter wavelengths. The longer wavelengths tend to pass straight through the translucent layer with unaltered paths of yellow light, and then encounter the next layer further back in the iris, which is a light absorber called the epithelium or
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Thus, the longer wavelengths are not reflected (by scattering) back to the open air as much as the shorter wavelengths. Because the shorter wavelengths are the blue wavelengths, this gives rise to a blue hue in the light that comes out of the eye. The blue iris is an example of a
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Prior to his discovery of the phenomenon, Tyndall was primarily known for his work on the absorption and emission of radiant heat on a molecular level. In his investigations in that area, it had become necessary to use air from which all traces of floating dust and other
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Blue eyes and brown eyes, therefore, are anatomically different from each other in a genetically non-variable way because of the difference between turbid media and melanin. Both kinds of eye color can remain functionally separate despite being "mixed" together.
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that is colored brownish-black. The brightness or intensity of scattered blue light that is scattered by the particles is due to this layer along with the turbid medium of particles within the stroma.
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Mappes, Timo; Jahr, Norbert; Csaki, Andrea; Vogler, Nadine; Popp, Jรผrgen; Fritzsche, Wolfgang (2012). "The
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instead of
Tyndall scattering because the cloud droplets are larger than the wavelength of the light and scatters all colors approximately equally. When the daytime sky is
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containing numerous small particles of about 0.6 micrometers in diameter. These particles are finely suspended within the fibrovascular structure of the
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Tyndall effect produced by the oculus in the top of the
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seen in the large exponent it has in the mathematical statement of the intensity of
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is scattered much more strongly than red light. An example in everyday life is the blue colour sometimes seen in the smoke emitted by
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In eyes that contain both particles and melanin, melanin absorbs light. In the absence of melanin, the layer is
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and other colloidal matter. Investigation of the phenomenon led directly to the invention of the
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Smith, Glenn S. (2005). "Human color vision and the unsaturated blue color of the daytime sky".
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had been removed, and the best way to detect these particulates was to bathe the air in intense
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