When sunlight enters the earth's atmosphere, state which colour of light is scattered (i) the most, and (ii) the least.

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Of the various components of visible light, violet light is scattered the most, while red light is scattered the least.

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I am Shaun job of class 10, I have a doubt in physics on the topic of optics,

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If the Rayleigh scattering holds good, then the intensity of scattering is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength, then when sunlight enters the earth's atmosphere, the violet light should get scattered the most and blue light also gets scattered, but less than violet light, so my question is why doesnt the sky appear violet instead of blue??

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