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Are black and white colors or shades?

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Dregunner

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Shades and colors are the same thing. Anything that you can see has some color, it just might be described as a shade of red because to you its not what you would define as pure red. With that being said, true black is actually NOT a color as it reflects no light and it is the absense of color. However, there is nothing besides a "black body" in space that is pure black. White is a reflection of all colors - pure white or a shade of white - that is left up to your interpretation (unless you are a chemist or physicists as they have strict definitions of these things).

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yes, because balck and white have shades which for example is gray. so what is a shade of gray, balck and/or white!

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