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When light from the Sun passes through any type of matter the light slows down.
Interaction of sunlight with matter:
The behavior of light from the Sun as it interacts with any matter depends on the matter and its properties.
Since it comes through a vacuum and enters our atmosphere which is a denser medium and has a definite refractive index, the light slows down.
This also happens when light falls on material such as glass, water, and other transparent and translucent media. When it emerges out of such medium to a rarer medium like air, it speeds up to its initial speed.
A portion of the sunlight is absorbed by almost all the matter present on earth that's why something heats up when exposed to sunlight. While a considerable portion of the sunlight is reflected by the matter.
But the question says what happens when it passes through any matter. The answer is:
It slows down while passing through the matter since any matter is optically denser than the vacuum.
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