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dust particles can be seen moving in haphazard (random) way when seen in a beam of light?

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Dust particles suspended in the atmosphere are much larger than the wavelength range of visible light.When white light coming from the sun hits these larger particles,it gets reflected or scattered in different directions making them look distributed in all directions.

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