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Reflection is when light is reemitted from the medium from which it came.
Refraction is when reemitted light bends from its original course and proceeds in straight lines from molecule to molecule within a transparent material . It makes the clouds vibrate through larger amplitudes. They vibrate with greater amplitude and interact with their neighbors with greater energy . This interaction produces heat as a by-product. The angle of incident light equals the angle of reflected light.