Light travels more quickly through water than through glass:
  1. Which is optically denser: Water or glass?
  2. If a ray of light passes from glass into water, which way will it bend: Towards the normal or away from the normal?
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  1. Glass is optically denser than the water.
  2. The ray will bend away from the normal.
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