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I'm trying to understand more about how visible light can interact with matter. I wanted to clarify one bit of information I found.

An excerpt I was reading said that all materials interact with light in all 4 possible ways (diffuse reflection, specular reflection, absorption, and transmission). It was saying that any object you find will interact with visible light in all 4 of those ways at the same time.

But I thought that an object that absorbed light couldn't transmit light through it. If you shine a single frequency of visible light at an object which absorbs that frequency of light, how can it be transmitted through that object as well?

Any insight is greatly appreciated.