State the relation between the critical angle and the absolute refractive index of a medium.

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Relation between critical angle and refractive index of medium is given by $sin θ_{c} = \frac{1}{n}$
where, $θ_{c}$ is the critical angle and $n$ is the refractive index of medium.

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