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After the 1600s, how did observations of light being refracted change the way most scientists thought about light?

They no longer believed that light acted as waves.
They began to believe that light acted as waves.
They no longer believed that light acted as particles.
They began to believe that light acted as particles.

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They began to believe that light acted as waves.

Observations of refraction (and later interference/diffraction) matched wave behavior, so scientists increasingly modeled light as a wave.