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Question : Why does the water in the Waterfall looks white even though water is a colorless fluid ? Answer: A Surface appear white when all the colors get reflected from it's surface.In Waterfall the water droplets can be imagined that they are suspended in air. In general light enters a from a lighter medium to a denser medium it gets reflected by the surface and the rest is refracted . A straw in a glass of water appears to be bended because of the light refraction as shown in the below diagram. In Waterfall light suffers numerous reflection and refraction by the water drops and as a result more light is reflected,the light that is refracted at the top-layer in the water fall will eventually gets reflected at the next layer. And hence most of the light gets reflected and hence waterfall appears white.

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