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• A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.

  C. V. Raman
  Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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• mediterranean
• opalescence
• phenomenon
• scattering
• molecules
• water

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