Posted by sal on Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 3:50am.
Polaroid filters are incorporated into sunglasses. Because the light reflecting off most surfaces will tend to be partly polarized with a predominance of the electric fields oscillating horizontally, that “glare” can be diminished by having the transmission axis of the Polaroid filters aligned vertically.
http://www.physics.uc.edu/~sitko/LightColor/16-Polarization/polarization.htm
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