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By 'in the environment' I suppose you mean natural materials? Water is one, you can see this when you look into a pool, the bottom appears nearer ie the water shallower than it really is. Air can also bend light, this is how mirages are formed. Water droplets in the air cause rainbows due to different light wavelengths being bent by different amounts.

Generally any material with a refractive index will bend light passing through it. Glass is another obvious one, though not naturally occurring. However some natural types of stones can be transparent, such as diamonds, and these will certainly bend light.

All of these objects also reflect light.

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Nothing can bend light. Light can only be reflected in straight lines!

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a glass prism (i think), the white light that passes through it reveals all the colours of the spectrum as it passes. (spectrum colours = rainbow colours

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Gravitation lensing. Light will bend when it passes through a gravitational field. This was the first proof of the theory of Special Relativity. During a solar eclipse astronomers found that the position of certain stars proximal to the location of the sun were shift by the amount predicted by Einstein.

Refraction through transparent mater.

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Any wave phenomenon ... which includes electromagnetic waves, which includes light ...
changes its direction when it passes from one medium into another one where its speed
is different.

The only exception is the situation where it was traveling 'straight', i.e. perpendicular to the
interface. In that case, it keeps going straight in the new medium, and doesn't bend.
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Air, water, and glass are three materials in the environment that can bend light through the process of refraction.

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sunglasses, microscope, hand lens/magnify glass

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prism Mirror, Prism.

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Anything transparent.

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To use a mirror

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Prism

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