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The Tyndall Effect is a physics concept used to discuss something known as “colloidal suspensions.”  Colloidal suspensions describe a homogenous substance consisting of submicroscopic particles dispersed in another.  Unlike solutions, colloidal suspensions exhibit light scattering.  A beam of light or laser, invisible in clear air or pure water, will trace a visible path through a genuine colloidal suspension, e.g. a headlight on a car shining through fog.  This is knows as the Tyndall effect (after its discoverer, British physicist John Tyndall), and is a special instance of diffraction.  Diffraction is a phenomenon that occurs with gases and liquids.

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