Each air molecule of oxygen and nitrogen is a selective scatterer in that each scatters longer waves of visible light much more effectively than shorter waves.

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Each air molecule scatters shorter waves of visible light much more effectively than longer waves. This is the reason why the sky appears blue during the daytime as the shorter blue wavelengths are scattered much more than the longer red wavelengths.

Each Air Molecule of Oxygen and Nitrogen Is a Selective