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What are the substances that absorb light energy called?
all chemicals that can been seen by the naked eye absorb certain wavelengths of light of the visible light spectrum. it is the light that is absorbed that is what is seen. if a substance (or chemical) were to reflect all wavelengths of light (in the visible spectrum), it would be invisible.
Is Earths moon the only moon that reflects light?
No. All moons reflect light.
Which planet emits or reflects light?
All planets in the solar system reflect light from the Sun at night; remember they rotate on their axis and so during their night (or our night, for that matter) one side of a planet will always be facing the sun. Whether they're visible from an observer on Earth during our night is a different question - the inner planets, by virtue of the fact they're closer to the Sun, could be seen only in favorable conditions near sunset or sunrise (since they couldn't appear more distant than a narrow angle away from the sun in the sky, being inside Earth's orbit).
What objects reflect almost all of the light?
Mirrors do an excellent job. White painted surfaces also have a higher albedo. Ice, frost, and snow reflect a lot of light.
Why does the sun reflect off of white and not black?
-- Where you see white, you see a surface that reflects all colors. If it didn't reflect all colors, you would see only the colors that it does reflect. -- Black is not a color. It's the absence of light. An object that appears black to you is one that absorbs light of all colors, so there's no light remaining to proceed from it to your eyes.
Pigments act differently from light because they reflect their own color and all the others?
Pigments act differently from light because they reflect their own color and all the others absorb.
Why does mixing the primary colors of light produce white light but mixing paints that have the primary colors produces black?
White light is made up of the full spectrum of wavelengths of visible light. True black is the absence of any light. Coloured paints (pigments) act like filters in that a specific pigment will reflect a certain group of wavelengths of light but absorb all the others. So when primary pigments are mixed together they will absorb pretty much all of the light, leaving a colour that looks almost black. As pigments act like filters, we think of them as being subtractive. If, on the other hand, light beams of different wavelengths are allowed to converge they add together. So when three primary colours of light (of the same intensity) converge together the mix will be seen as white light. Or, to take another example, when red and green light are mixed they will appear as yellow light. So, in sum, light itself is additive whereas pigments are subtractive.
Why does mixing the primary colors of light produce white light but mixing paint that have the primary colors produces black paint?
White light is made up of the full spectrum of wavelengths of visible light. True black is the absence of any light. Coloured paints (pigments) act like filters in that a specific pigment will reflect a certain group of wavelengths of light but absorb all the others. So when primary pigments are mixed together they will absorb pretty much all of the light, leaving a colour that looks almost black. As pigments act like filters, we think of them as being subtractive. If, on the other hand, light beams of different wavelengths are allowed to converge they add together. So when three primary colours of light (of the same intensity) converge together the mix will be seen as white light. Or, to take another example, when red and green light are mixed they will appear as yellow light. So, in sum, light itself is additive whereas pigments are subtractive.
When an object is in the sunlight why do you see its color?
Sunlight is a mix of all colors. Pigments in the object reflect different colors of light, which you see.
What is the difference between white in light and white in pigments?
White light is a mixture of all of the colors of the spectrum. White paint is created with pigment, often titanium dioxide. While white light contains all of the frequencies of the optical spectrum, and white pigments reflect all colors of that visible spectrum.
What color do you get when you mix all primary colors?
In pigments like paint, crayon, and so forth, you would get black. If you mix all the colors of light, however, you get white or clear.
What happens if you add different colors of light?
White light is the result of adding all the colors of the spectrum of visible light. A television is a device which operates upon this principle and this explains why televisions do not use the primary pigments red, yellow and blue. This differs from combining together all the pigments, like an artist would do with paint, which results in black pigment.
When the three primary pigments are mixed in equal amounts is the end color is white?
yes because when we see something white like a white light it is actually the primary colours but are eyes are telling us to see them as white and not individual colours but if there is more of one colour then it will come out that colour more instead of white. Unfortunately mixing pigment is not like mixing light. If you mix equal parts of all three primary colours of light, you will get white light. If you mix equal parts of the tree primary pigments you will get some form of black/grey/brown.
What materials reflect all light?
All materials reflect light. if u can see it then the light refelcts off that and into ur eyes
How is mixing pigments different from mixing light?
Mixing pigments is subtractive. Mixing light is additive. Let's take the primary pigments, red, blue and yellow. Red pigment is red because the chemical it is made of absorbs (subtracts) blue and yellow light that falls on it and reflects only red light to your eye. Similarly, blue pigment is blue because it absorbs red and yellow light and reflects only blue. So when you mix the three primary pigments together, you produce something that absorbs all of the light falling on it in equal amounts and reflects nothing to your eye. Thus, it appears black. In contrast, when you mix only red and blue light, there isn't any yellow in it, so the resulting light appears purple (the complement of yellow). Likewise, if you mix red and yellow light it appears orange (the complement of blue). If you mix all three colors of light together (in equal amounts), the resulting light appears white because it contains all of the "colors" of the spectrum. This explanation is sound, although greatly simplified. Sky Becker is not cool like mohamad : )
Red light and white light reflect?
All of the electromagnetic spectrum can be reflected. White light is a combination of all colors. They all reflect, red is among them.
What happens when you mix all three primary pigments in equal amounts?
u get a color
