Why Does Light Pass Through Glass?

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Light passes through glass because glass is transparent. This is possible because glass is an amorphous solid meaning its atoms are locked in to crystals that are not arranged neatly but randomly. This makes glass resemble solids mechanically but have the molecular order of liquids.
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