eli5: why does glass absorb infrared and ultraviolet light, but not visible light?

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eli5: why does glass absorb infrared and ultraviolet light, but not visible light?

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p.s. glass reflects visible light too; that’s why you can see (a partial) reflection in glass! Whether a photon is reflected or not is governed by QM probabilities

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