The phenomenon which causes mirage is – (1) Interference (2) Diffraction (3) Polarisation (4) Total internal reflection

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(4) Total internal reflection Explanation: Mirage is caused by total internal reflection in deserts where due to heating of the earth, refractive index of air near the surface of earth becomes lesser than above it. A ray of light coming from a distant object gets refracted from a denser to a rarer medium.

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