Which outcome occurs when sunlight passes through calcite?

💡 Explanation

Calcite exhibits birefringence; therefore double refraction occurs because the crystal splits light into ordinary and extraordinary rays using the mechanism of polarization, which induces different refractive indices, rather than other scattering.

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