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Classify the objects or materials given below as opaque, transparent or translucent and luminous or non-luminous:

Air, water, a piece of rock, a sheet of aluminium, a mirror, a wooden board, a sheet of polythene, a CD, smoke, a sheet of plane glass, fog, a piece of red hot
iron, an umbrella, a lighted fluorescent tube, a wall, a sheet of carbon paper, the flame of a gas burner, a sheet of cardboard, a lighted torch, a sheet of cellophane, a wire mesh, kerosene stove, sun, firefly, moon.

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Opaque: A piece of rock, a CD, smoke, iron, an umbrella, a wall, a sheet of aluminium.

Transparent: Air, water, sheet of plane glass.

Translucent: A sheet of polythene, fog, a sheet of cellophone.

Luminous: A lightened fluorescent tube, flame of gas burner, a lighted torch, firefly, stove, sun, moon.

Non- luminous: A mirror, piece of rock, a wire mesh, iron, a wall.

The objects through which lights cannot pass are called as opaque objects.
Objects from which lights can pass easily and we can see clearly through them are called transparent objects.
The objects from which lights can pass easily but we cannot see clearly are known as translucent objects.
The objects which emits light are called as luminous.
The objects which does not emit light are known as non- luminous objects.

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