Tyndall Effect And Milk Glass

Light or optics is somehow intimately related to glass science and technology due mainly to the transparency of glass. This is due to transmission of light through a given piece of glass. If the light is partly transmitted and partly absorbed, then depending on the wavelength of the light absorbed by the glass that again depends on the impurities, we then see the glass coloured. However, there is also a possibility of scattering of light by the small particles suspended intentionally within the glass matrix that give rise to the opaqueness in the glass. This special effect of scattering is called the Tyndall Effect, or Tyndall Scattering, which is discussed in this article with reference to the production of milk glass.