Why do white clothes become see-through when wet?
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Okay, so one answer here is right and the other is far off. The correct answer is light scattering. Thing’s that appear opaque do so because they scatter light in random directions roughly equally. Getting something wet “fills in the gaps” and creates a single “uniform” surface for the light to interact with.
Think that demonstration you see online where someone puts cellophane tape on a frosted window and makes it transparent.
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