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Q: How could you prove that white light contains a mixture of light with different colors?
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What can you say about the speed of the different colors light in air?

I could say that shorter wavelengths move faster, but that would be wrong. The truth is that all wavelengths/colors travel at the same speed.


What are different colors of light differ in their?

Wavelength. You could also say frequency, since wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional.


If white light is the mixture of all visible colors why does the mixture of many colored paints produce black?

Colorants like inks, paints and dyes work by absorbing certain colors of light and reflecting their complimentary colors. Black paint, for instance, works by absorbing all colors of light. One of the major reasons you can't get a clean black out of a mix of...say, cyan, magenta and yellow...is you can't get enough density out of the colorants to absorb all the light. Even if you could, no one would make black paint out of all the different pigments mixed together because the carbon black pigment they use is really cheap and the pigments for the various colors are not cheap. When you mix up many colors you get gray or something muddy, not black. To get white you need to mix particular amounts of particular primary colors. Colors aren't pure. If they were and you mixed the correct amounts you would get white. The best way to see this is on Paintshop Pro or other computer programs. The programs are better than real colors since they don't have the practical limitations that the paint manufacturers have.


How can two things of same material have different colours?

If you wanted to get different colors from exactly the same material, you could use it in different concentrations. For example, human skin is colored by just one pigment, which is melanin, yet it produces a wide range of colors (combined with the background pinkish white of skin and the circulatory system).


Who are he primary colors?

Answer:The primary colors are red, blue, and yellow.Answer:There are many possible primary colors. For additive combination the primary colors colors could be red, green and blue. For subtractive combinations, they could be magenta, cyan and yellow. But depending on how you intend to use them, there can be other combinations too.

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How can you prove that white light contains a mixture of light with different colors?

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