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slimxady: 2 months ago

How do colours exist ?

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kcity: 2 months ago via iPhone

We can't see atoms because they are to small for any wavelength to hit them. You see the colour of whatever the object doesn't absorb, that's why leaves are green, water is blue, and your pen ink is black

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meliidawson: 2 months ago via iPhone

Black absorbs no color and white absorbs them all right?

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DeepDark: 2 months ago

Other way around. This is why black heats up in sunlight more than white; it absorbs much more of the light, slowing it down until it becomes heat.

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linzeypop: 2 months ago via Android

white is every color. black is the absence of color.

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DeepDark: 2 months ago

Yes, because black reflects NO color. We only see the color that is reflected. White reflects ALL the colors.

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john34621: 2 months ago

In a spectrum. Light. No light no colors.

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5FDP: 2 months ago via Android

it has to do with atoms or something in the air. i forgot :/

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zotoxis: 2 months ago

I don't know if this helps but a teacher of mine once told me that a color is every other color than the color you see. For example the color blue is every other color but blue.

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meliidawson: 2 months ago via iPhone

that's because it absorbs every color but the one you see and that gets reflected back to your eyes. Just wanted to add that in there :)

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IdkThatsWhyImHere: 2 months ago via iPhone

They belong in the visible part of the light spectrum or what normal people call the rainbow (which is just light)

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CGNKilljoy: 2 months ago via Android

as the guy from vsauce said the only colors we actually see is red,blue,and green the other colors fall between them if you look close at a tv screen you can see the colors red blue and green

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Misaki875: 2 months ago

The colors that's there reflects the object, while the other colors are absorbing it. The light is actually giving you all the colors of the rainbow, but the absorbed ones are not seen, if that makes any sense.