The colors that make up white lights are called?

Answer 1

ANSWER The color of light is define by its wavelength if there is a sufficiens spread in the visible spectrum then white light will be seen. If you have say red light which has a long wavelength and green that is a mix of the middle and short wavelengths, you would get white light. If you had orange and blue you would get white light for the inverse reason. You could also get white light from yellow and purple. These colors at opposite sides of the color wheel are called complementare.

Answer 2

I believe you are thinking of the spectrum of visible light.

White light is made up of a range of colours called a spectrum. They make up the familiar pattern of a rainbow. It was first seriously studied by Isaac newton, who refracted sunlight through a glass prism and split the light. He described seeing seven colours (though we can easily see that there aren't clear distinctions between them and there are lots of intermediate hues). We normally still refer to Newton's Colours ( Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo & Violet).

There is a mnemonic for remembering the correct sequence ( Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain).

Helpful Acronym: ROY G. BIV

Answer 3

If you mean what colours of light make up white light :P

White light can be made with Red, Green and blue only (RGB)

These are the minimum amount of colour you need. White light can also be made using Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet

And easy way to remember this is ROY G BIV

Answer 4

The additive primaries are red, green, and blue-violet. White can be produced by combining all three primary colors. Any two colorswhose light together produces white are called complementary colors, e.g., yellow and blue-violet, or red and blue-green.

Answer 5

If you are trying to make white light from colored lights then you only need the colors red, blue and green. You can add colors to these two colors to make white.

Answer 6

This group of wavelengths is normally referred to as the visible light spectrum.

Answer 7

White light is a combination of all the colors of visible light.

Answer 8

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