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If the color white reflects all colors and black absorbs all what does it mean if something is clear?
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If something is clear, the light simply passes through the object. If something is white the light is all reflected, black it is all absorbed, clear, it would pass through.
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"Black is not a color; a black object absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum and reflects none of them. White is a color. White reflects all the colors of the visible light spectrum." -- http://www.colormatters.com/vis_bk_white.html#Anchor-The-35882
