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Question:
How is it that small particles scatter smaller wavelength and large particles scatter larger wavelength
Answer:

Visualisation of the particle scattering of light can be helpful to understand the above question. The wavelengths of light gets scattered by smaller particles because the diameters of these particles are more compatible for scattering these smaller waves of light.

For the higher wavelengths of light, it is found that they get scattered mainly by the larger particles. This is again because the diameters of the larger particles are more compatible to scatter the larger waves of light.

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