What happens to the ray of light when it passes from glass to air?

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When a ray refracted from denser medium to rarer medium, it deviates away from the normal. Here in this case, the ray CD is deviating from the normal M when passing from glass slab to air as glass is denser medium and air is rarer medium.

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