Explain the following :
A crack in a window pane appears silvery.

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Total internal reflection: The phenomenon due to which a ray of light, while traveling from an optically denser medium to an optically rarer medium, gets reflected into the optically denser medium, at the surface of separation is called total internal reflection.
A crack in a glass windowpane appears silvery because of the presence of air in the crack, which results in total internal reflection.

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