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Why is the sky blue?

The Sun's light looks plain white, and the air is completely see-through. So where does all that blue come from, painting the whole daytime sky?

A clear, cloudless blue daytime sky
Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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