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The refractive index of diamond is much greater than that of glass. How does a diamond cutter makes use of this fact ?

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SOLUTION :As refractive index of diamond is much greater hence critical angle for diamond-air interface is quite SMALL (In fact it is 24.5). Thus, a diamond cutter has large OPTIONS to cut the diamond faces so that light suffers TOTAL internal reflection from these faces.


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