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Black paint is black because it absorbs all of the visible light spectrum. We see this absorption as the color black. White paint is made of any material that reflects all light and so when our eyes receive all of the visible colors at once, we recognize it as the color white. So to clarify, black is the absence of all color while white is the presence of all colors.

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