What individual properties determine which color when split from white light is absorbed?
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White light is not split up by different particles in the air (the exception are water droplets in a rainbow, the blue sky and the orange and red of sunsets and sunrises). Objects outside the atmosphere reflect back their colors, without white light being broken up by air. The moon is yellow, Mars is red and look at all the colors of Jupiter. \n\n\nWhite light is made up (already contains) the different colors of the visible light spectrum: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet. (Roy Green bit Iris Vaughn is a mmemonic to remember the colors) \n\nWhat distinguished the different colors in the spectrum is their wavelength. When white light hits an object like grass or wood only the color you see the object as, is reflected, the other colors are absorbed.
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Because you are seeing reflected light, and typically the light source in your bathroom/kitchen is white light from a bulb or from sunlight.  "Color" is perception based on the reflected wavelengths of light; surfaces absorb some wavelengths and reflect others. We see the reflected wavelengths.  When something "looks" white it is typically because it's reflecting all or almost all wavelengths of light.
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White light is a combination of many wavelengths of the visible light spectrum.  As these wavelengths pass through water droplets suspended in the air, they are refracted at different angles.  Because of the angle of refraction, and because each wavelength of light is bent at a different, specific angle, the result is the division or sorting of light into wavelengths, which the human eye then perceives as color.\n\n:) Hope this helps!
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Our eyes react to different shades of light, and what we determine as colors\nare different wavelengths of light.  When we say an object is a certain\ncolor, it is because it is reflecting more of a certain wavelength light.\nFor example red objects reflect "red" light, or light with a longer\nwavelength (lower frequency) better than other types of light.\n\nSo, we determine the color by the primary type of light the object reflects\n(or emits if it is a light).\n\nWe also perceive other properties of colors, and that is lightness or\ndarkness.  A light colored object may reflect one color especially well, but\nalso reflect other colors as well.  A very light green object, for example,\nreflects green very well, but also reflects most other colors, just not as\nwell.\n\nDark objects tend not to reflect light very well at all, even if it reflects\none color better than the other.\n\nWhite objects, tend to reflect all types of light equally well, and tend to\nreflect most of the light cast on it.\n\n\n\nBlack absorbs-white reflects, that is why.
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This might help:  An object color is determined by the wavelengths of light that it reflects.  Objects that are "white" aren't really white...the objects merely reflect all wavelengths of light (when you combine all wavelengths you get white light).  Objects that are "black", appear that way because they reflect back little or no light...absorbing it all.  It's why you don't want to wear black on a sunny day....your shirt will absorb a ton of the light and get hot.
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Hi Scarlett,\n\nFirst of all, visible light waves consist of a continuous range of wavelengths or frequencies. When a light wave with a single frequency strikes an object, a number of things could happen. The light wave could be absorbed by the object, in which case its energy is converted to heat; the light wave could be reflected by the object; and the light wave could be transmitted by the object. Rarely however does just a single frequency of light strike an object. While it does happen, it is more usual that light of many frequencies or even all frequencies are incident towards the surface of objects. When this occurs, objects have a tendency to selectively absorb, reflect or transmit light of certain frequencies. That is, one object might reflect green light while absorbing all other frequencies of visible light. Another object might selectively transmit blue light while absorbing all other frequencies of visible light. The manner in which visible light interacts with an object is dependent upon the frequency of the light and the nature of the atoms of the object.\n\n"White" or natural light is made up of different colours (as in a rainbow) and Isaac Newton showed that these could be shown by shining white light through a prism.\n\nWhat "colour" we see an object depends on what wavelength of light it does not absorb and that depends on what the chemistry of the object is. This is because the electrons in a substance will vibrate at a certain frequency depending on what the construction (i.e. what the chemistry) of the atom is. Accordingly this will either absorb (interfere) or coincide with the wavelength of a particular colour.\n\nThus we will always see different chemicals as different colours (ie. wavelengths).
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The "white" is caused by the crystalization of water molecules when they are frozen.  Light refracts off these crystals in a full spectrum (so you get white.)  When the molecules free again after getting warm, the light no longer refracts off in the full spectrum removing the white color.\n\nBTW white light is made of millions of colors...
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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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The temperature of the sum's surface gives it's characteristic color. If an object with a small hole in it were heated to the same temperature the light comming out of the hole would have the same temperature. i.e., black body radation.\n\nAlso because our eyes the characteristic light as yellow. Namely, the three color sensors in our eyes senses the Yellow more brightly than the red and blue. So, we see yellow.
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Since the spectra of a given element shows a discrete number of color bands (rather than a continuous specturm), and since the color of light relates to its energy, and since photons are released by the relaxation of electrons from a higher to a lower energy state, it follows that the gaps between energy levels are distinct and finite.  This means that the energy levels are quantized.
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it is because of pigment (probably xanthin) which emmits wavelength of yellow light and absorbs all others
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Yes, it would be black. The colour of object depends on what wavelengths of light are absorbed and which are reflected back by an object essentially.\n\nSo if all wavelengths of light are absorbed then it appears black, and if everything is reflected then it appears white. Every other colour we see depends again on the wavelength that is reflected.
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The colour we perceive is the part of the visible spectrum which the material reflects.\n\nColour arises primarily due to electronic transitions. Electrons absorb energy at a particular frequency and radiate it at another. Organic dyes and paints have a lot ofdouble bonds which occur alternately, this is called a conjugated system.\n\nInorganic materails are colured due to the transtion of electrons among d-orbitals.
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The UV-VIS spectrum is due to the electronic transitions of the molecule. This is characteristic of a compound. Qualitative and quantitative estimations of compounds are possible by this non destructive technique. \n\nThe absorption (A) of a solution at a particular wavelength is given by Beer-Lambert's law ect = A where c is the concentration of the compound , t is the thickness of the cell and e is the molar extinction coefficient characteristic of the compound at a given wavelength. This principle is used for quantitative measurements. \n\nCary 5E is a high resolution spectrophotometer to study the electronic spectrum of solutions, single crystals and powder samples (in nujol mull) in the range of 3150-185 nm. This is a double beam instrument controlled by a microprocessor. Base line correction, repetitive scan, kinetics, derivative and concentration modes are possible. Diffuse reflectance is available for solid samples. VT accessory in the range 5-90 degrees Centigrade is available\n\nThis principle is used for quantitative measurements.
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Well man,\n   A cute question. One question to you too. What is colour? well it is the reflected light of a specific wavelength. So the coulor that your atom would reflect will give the atom its colour. Simple yet beautiful
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light density or intensity? if you're talking about intensity then it depends on distance. that's an inverse square relationship.
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Any substance appears coloured because it absorbs all other wavelengths of the visible spectrum other than the wavelength of its colour.i.e if a substance is blue in colour then it absorbs all other wavelenths of the visible spectrum  including red,orange yellow, green  except those pertaining to the blue region of the spectrum. Hence when these wavelenths strike the retina of the eye ,we perceive it as a blue coloured substance.\n   Now though it absorbs all other wavelenths ,it absorbs maximally those of  a coloured region complementary to its physical colour.Thus for blue the complementary colour is orange(oppt ends of the spectrum),for violet  eg KMnO4 it is red etc.So if you have to study the absorption power of a blue solution you have to use  an orange filter in the colorimeter and for an orange coloured solution eg K2Cr2O7  you will use a blue filter.