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The colour of sky, in direction other than of the sun, is blue. Explain.

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Blue light is scattered in all direction by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is the reason of the sky appears blue.


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