eli5: why does glass absorb infrared and ultraviolet light, but not visible light?
In: Physics
Not sure of the exact answer, but I did want to point out one thing. If there was another material that absorbed visible light, but not infrared and/or ultraviolet light, we’d just see it as a normal solid material. We see glass as different from all other solids because we can see through it. If our vision was based on the infrared spectrum, what we think of as glass now wouldn’t be glass to us anymore
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