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Usually, algae (AL jee) -- tiny plants. Algae can grow on surface of the water or on rocks and other stuff on the bottom. Sometimes it's not the water that's green, but the lake bottom or stream bottom. In shallow areas, sunlight reflects off the algae growing on the bottom and makes the water look green.
High concentrations of copper can also make water look green.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoAccording to some scientists and researchers, the sky reflects off the water and gives it the blue effect, however the green you see in it is mainly caused by algae.
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∙ 13y agoThe presence of phyotplankton in the water. They are too small for the eye to see individually, and they have chlorophyll for photosynthesis, which is green.
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∙ 13y agonutrients in water react with sunlight (photosynthesis) which in turn causes algae to grow thus turning the water green.
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∙ 14y agothe reflection of the sky and the sun
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Why the lake is greenish blue?
The color of a lake may just be the color of the sky, reflected in the lake, but if the water itself is actually greenish blue, that is caused by algae.
A color that is greenish blue that starts with tur?
turquoise
What color is 528nm?
Theoretically all colours except Green sot that only green light of wavelength 520 can pass through
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It is due to Rayleigh Scattering of smaller wavelengths by tiny water molecules floating just above the surface of sea.
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because pokemon red has more fire pokemon than blue and green but blue has more water ones than all the others and green has more grass pokemon
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Water appears greenish blue because its complimentary color red is absorbed by water molecules
Why is the color of the water at the sea is greenish blue?
The colour of the sea is greenish blue because of the reflection of the sky
What is another name for a greenish blue color a greenish blue color?
turquoise
Why the lake is greenish blue?
The color of a lake may just be the color of the sky, reflected in the lake, but if the water itself is actually greenish blue, that is caused by algae.
Which color the sea water have?
The sea water is a greenish blue colour, (The greenish colour comes from the abundant plankton that thrive within the water.)
What color formed when copper mixed with chlorine in water?
It should be a greenish blue.
A color that is greenish blue?
teal is a four letter word for a greenish blue color ^_^
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greenish blue
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a greenish blue color
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Yellow and blue can be combined together to make the greenish color. Also, yellow and dark, green can create that "greenish color."
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Cyan.
Robert Pattinsons eye color'?
greenish blue
