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Different elements and chemical substances absorb and emit different wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum. Carbon dioxide is colorless because the wavelengths that it absorbs and emits are chiefly in the infrared region of the spectrum, which is invisible to human eyes. If human eyes could detect infrared radiation, then we would not think that carbon dioxide is colorless. If our eyes were not able to detect the hazy green wavelengths emitted by chlorine gas, then we would say that chlorine gas is colorless instead of green, and it would never have gotten the name that stems from the Greek word for "green".
Some objects that emit only in the nonvisible portion of the spectrum appear black instead of clear like carbon dioxide. The reason carbon dioxide doesn't appear black is that it is so rarified, being a gas, that most light passes through it instead of being absorbed.
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Why can you see the movement of nitrogen dioxide gas in a container but not carbon dioxide?
Carbon dioxide is a colorless gas while nitrogen dioxide is a gas with a reddish-brown color.
What would be the product if a compound containing carbon is burnt. Is there any test to confirm this?
The product of carbon being burnt is carbon dioxide, when it is burnt in excess of oxygen. Carbon dioxide is colorless and basically odorless, but it can be determined by passing the gases into a solution of limewater. This will become milky, as calcium carbonate would be produced in the presence of carbon dioxide.
Is carbon colorless?
Diamond can be colorless; but graphite, coal, carbon black are black.
Can you list gasses that are pugnent smelling and colorless?
I really don't know much, but some that i know is carbon monoxide, oxgen and carbon dioxide Sorry for net knowing much ;;
Carbon dioxide is bubbled with lime water. what do we observe?
The carbon dioxide will change into a milky solution . If we further bubble through lime water the solution we be colourless.
What color is carbon dioxide?
Carbon dioxide is colorless.
What is the color of the carbon dioxide molecule?
Carbon dioxide gas is colorless
What does a ton of carbon dioxide look like?
Carbon dioxide is colorless.
Is carbon dioxide red?
No; it is colorless.
How does phenolphthalein show carbon dioxide?
The solution of carbon dioxide in water is colorless.
Is carbon dioxide a red gas that turns limestone pink?
Carbon dioxide is a colorless gas.
Why are oxygen and carbon dioxide colorless and odorless?
because oxygen and carbon dioxide are what we inhale like wind
Which is a colorless odorless pollutant surlfur dioxide carbon monoxide?
Carbon monoxide.
What color does carbon give when it burns in oxygen?
Carbon is burned to carbon dioxide, a colorless gas.
What happens to Carbon dioxide at 25 degrees Celseius?
At 25oC, Carbon Dioxide is in it's "standard state" - a colorless gas.
Why can you see the movement of nitrogen dioxide gas in a container but not carbon dioxide?
Carbon dioxide is a colorless gas while nitrogen dioxide is a gas with a reddish-brown color.
What is a property of carbon dioxide?
tasteless, colorless, non-combustable, gas (at STP)
