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Fill in the following blanks with suitable words:
We can see the sun about ................ minutes before the actual sunrise and about ................ minutes after the actual sunset because of atmospheric ................

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We can see the sun about two minutes before the actual sunrise and about two minutes after the actual sunset because of atmospheric refraction.

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