Hey !
1st of all... my main id (genius) is block.. so don't ask questions there.

now its too simple...

as we know Dalton had declared that in our environment different types of atoms with different shapes.. size nd with different property are present...

so.. those matter which are made up of transparent atoms are transparent in property.

now i know u will definitely ask... "molecules of water are different from the atoms of Glass.. the. why both are transparent" ....
then.. we also know that in our environment there exist some atoms whose few properties are similar...
so.. both are transparent coz the property of transparency is followed by both... the molecules of water as well as the atoms of glasses...

hope u got it !!!!!

Photons pass through glass because they are not absorbed. And they are not absorbed because there is nothing which "absorbs" light in visual frequencies in glass. You may have heard that ultraviolet photons are absorbed by glass, so glass is not transparent for them. Exactly the same happens with X-rays for which our body is nearly transparent whilst a metal plate absorbs it. This is experimental evidence.

Any photon has certain frequency - which for visible light is related to the colour of light, whilst for lower or upper frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum it is simply a measure of the energy transported by photon. A material's absorption spectrum (which frequencies are absorbed and how much so) depends on the structure of the material at atomic scale. Absorption may be from atoms which absorb photons (remember - electrons go to upper energetic states by absorbing photons), from molecules, or from lattices. There are important differences in these absorption possibilities:

Atoms absorb well-defined discrete frequencies. Usually single atoms absorb only a few frequencies - it depends on the energetic spectrum of its electrons. Regarding atomic absorption, the graph of absorption (plotted as a function of frequency of light) contains well-defined peaks for frequencies when absorption occurs, and no absorption at all between them.

Molecules absorb discrete frequencies but there are many more absorption lines because even a simple molecule has many more energetic levels than any atom. So molecules absorb much more light.

Crystalline lattices may absorb not only discrete frequencies but also continuous bands of frequencies, mainly because of discrepancies in the crystalline structure.

As glass is a non-crystalline, overcooled fluid, consisting of molecules, its absorption occurs in the 1st and 2nd ways, but because of the matter it is composed of, it absorbs outside our visible spectrum.

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