does the color of an object affect how much heat it absorbs?
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The color of an object affects how much light an object absorbs or reflects.  The spectrum of visible light are seperated in to additive colors and subtractive colors.  Additive colors reflect light and the primary additive colors are Red, Blue, and Green.  The Primary Subtractive Colors also known as the (Primary Pigments) absorb light and they are Yellow, Cyan, and Magenta.  When you mix all primary additive colors you will get white and when you mix all subtractive colors you get black, which means black absorbs the most light, which means it aborbs the most energy.
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Good question. The colour of a mirror can be affected by the colout of the glass and the colour of the reflective backing. In most mirrors the glass is clear and the backing is silver so they are nominally silver in colour.\n\nOf course this becomes somewhat comlicated when something becomes reflected in them.
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Do you mean you added coloured powder?\n\nAny chemical added to water will affect the evaporation rate slightly, and so the different chemicals to give different colours will make a bit of difference.\n\nThe other thing will be how much energy different colours absorb - for example, black is good at abosorbing heat, whereas white tends to reflect heat. So the darker colours will have abosorbed more energy, heating the water quicker and causing more evaporation.
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RED (Even if it can reflect all the colors, you are not sending them to the object)
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The color of a compound is due to the light that it reflects -- that is, what is left after it absorbs light.  An object that does not emit light is black if it absorbs all light that falls on it.  Similarly, if white light shines on copper ammonia, the orange light (and presumably red and yellow light as well) will be absorbed.  Green and blue light will be reflected, thus the compound appears blue.
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No.  But it's wavelength decreases.\n\n\nDoug
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take a dark colored cloth and a light colored cloth.expose them to heat or sunlight.u will see that dark colors get hot very quickly than light colored cloth.switch off the source and u will see that the heat is quickly lost by dark cloth than light cloth.
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If it reflects all the light, it appears white. If it absorbs all the light, it appears black.
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Unevenly reflected, I guess.\n\nIf it is absorbed, it would be completely black. If it was evenly reflected, it would be completely white. If it was trasmitted, it would be clear like glass. Uneven reflections let you see colours and texture.
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When heated the electrons move from the ground state to an exicited state.  They are unstable here and return to the ground state giving off energy in the form of a specific color.  Different energy levels will produce different colors
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One could argue plastic wrap since the Aluminum foil would allow for greater heat conduction into the orange from the air.\n\nAluminum, being a metal, is a good conductor of heat.  The metal foil will allow for heat from the "hot" air to be conducted into the "cold" orange much quicker than the plastic wrap would.\nI dont think the light enegry being absorbed or reflected is that significant.\n\nTake the opposite case as an example, say you had a hot metal pot of water an you wanted to set it on some surface so that it stays hot the longest.  If you set the pot on a metal cooking sheet, the heat will be conducted away from the pot and into the air much quicker than if you were to set it on a peice of wood for example.
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dark colored clothes absorb more heat than light colored ones. if you are wearing dark colored shirt, chances are you will feel warmer.
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IF this is true (you need to verify this) then I have two hypotheses:\n\n1) Darker colors absorb more light as heat, and hotter air will escape faster (the extra motion of the molecules makes them pass through the baloon wall faster).\n\n2) The dyes they use for different colors, change the properties of the rubber.  E.g. the yellow dye mixed in with the rubber used in yellow balloons is more permeable than, say the red dye ... in that case, yellows baloons will lose air faster than red.\n\nIt would be a great science-fair experiment to eliminate hypothesis (1).  Two experiments you could do:\n(a) Verify whether those colors that lose air faster are always the darker colors.\n(b) Keep the same baloons in a dark closet so that they don't have light to heat them.  If they all lose air at the same rate, then that verifies hypothesis (1), if a different rate, then that eliminates hypothesis (1).\n\nRemember to limit your variables:  \n- You need to fill the baloons to exactly the same pressure and size (e.g. fill them up using a bicycle pump, using the same number of pumps ... and/or measure the circumference of each balloon with a string ... good for measuring both the starting size, and the rate that they lose air).  \n- Don't stretch the balloons before inflating them.  While this is a common trick to make blowing them up easier, it's hard to do this in exactly the same way with every balloon, so you will be affecting the results.\n- Use lots of balloons.  One of each color isn't enough.  You need to verify that (for example) red balloons *always* lose air faster then yellow balloons.\n- Compare balloons from the same manufacturer (don't compare yellow baloons from one company with red baloons from another, as they will have different types or thicknesses of rubber).
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I like what people are saying about our perception of something being "colored" is based purely on the light reflected and absorbed by the object.  Something black absorbs all light (thus is colorless) which is why black clothing in the summer is a bad idea.  White colored things reflect all light which is why wearing white in summer is a good idea.  If there is NO light present than everything will be black.  If there is light present but at a frequency other than white (say red) everything will either be black and some will be red.  Does that mean that the world is composed of black and red things?  Of course not.  A great example of this is seen when one SCUBA dives.  In the water as you go deeper the colors of the spectrum begin to fade out as they cannot penetrate the water.  (I seem to remember that it starts at the red side, but I may be mistaken.)  Anyway, at 130 feet, say, if you were to look around everything would seem extremely dull, dark and colorless.  Does that mean that the fish and structure at 130 feet have no color?  NO!  Simply take a flashlight down and turn it on to reveal the vibrant colors of the deep.  It's not that there is no color, it's that the (sun)LIGHT can't reach it.
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Is this a serious question? I highly doubt that candle color has any noticeable effect on burn time.
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When light falls onto an object a part of the spectrum is reflected and another part is absorbed. Depending on the (micro)texture of the object, different parts of the spectrum are reflected and we sense another color. Since there is a differennce in microtexture between wet and dry clothes, we experience a slightly different color.
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white is better as it basically reflects the sun so u stay cooler where as black absorbs the sun which is why u get hotter. Light colors jsut keep you cooler thats all there is to it