What is primary reason for a matter to be transparent as Cornea is?

Question

Is it because its internal structure is Crystalline? I mean by transparency following.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:39

No, the Cornea is mostly fibrous - not crystalline.

As for the physics of optical transparency - here's an elementary introduction

In order to go through a material evenly, light has to avoid two things:

being absorbed

being scattered off into another direction.

1 Answers1