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According to corpuscular theory, the velocity of light in the denser medium is greater than that in rarer medium.

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The corpuscles (light) would travel faster in the denser medium than in rarer medium. But later this is proved wrong. We know that light travels faster in the rarer medium than in denser medium.

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