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this effect is also the source of the name for the blue ridge mountains.

As well as the Blue Mountains, in Australia.

"Volatile terpenoids emitted in large quantities by the abundant eucalyptus trees in the Blue Mountains may cause Mie scattering and thus the blue haze for which the mountains were named." Amazing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mountains_(New_South_Wale...

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