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Technically, it's possible. In the dark, color actually DOESN't exist! It's not that you can't see it, it's just GONE. If you had infrared goggles, everything would be an eerie weird color. That's what happens when you get a wavelength longer than red, but still visible. Color is just what happens when a particular object absorbs all of the colors but one. If there is a red stop sign, the stop sign is reflecting only red, after a prism in the pigments of the paint used to pain the sign breaks the light wave into a spectrum.
To answer your question, It's very likely and highly possible that atoms could have color if we could observe them. But here's one thing for sure. it's NOT THE ATOMS THAT MAKE THE COLOR! just because a pencil is yellow, doesn't mean the atoms of the paint are yellow. It means that there are atoms that form to make something called a pigment, which breaks the light wave into the spectrum, and reflects the one color that you see (yellow).
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∙ 15y agoAtoms aren't all the same color. It depends on what became that atom, for example, even if you said what is the color of an atom made from soap? That would depend on the soap brand.
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What is the color of hassium?
Impossible to answer, but very probable no smell.
Why white color is good reflector of light even it is mixture of seven colors?
it is more specifically the atoms that make up a chemical or pigment that will determine the color that we see. Each specific atom or combination of atoms has a specific frequency that it is allowed to emit or "reflect". When the photonic or light energy is absorbed by the atoms that make up the paint, the electron shells of those atoms expand. Each atom will eventually pull the electron shells back in where they belong into their original place. When that happens, a specific amount of the absorbed energy is emitted or released by the atom. That is the energy that we see. The atoms that make up paint that we view as a dark color such as black, keep more energy than they give back. That is why they heat up faster, they are holding onto more energy. The atoms that make up paint that we view as a light color such as white, give back more energy than they keep, this is why they feel cooler than darker colors and take longer to heat up. So the answer to the question is that the atoms in white paint give away most of the energy that they absorb and emit that back to our eye which then absorbs and processes the energy.
What is the splitting of atoms into smaller atoms?
Nuclear fission is the splitting of atoms.
What are the two ways nuclear energy can be released?
Fusion (combining light atoms into heavier atoms), and fission (splitting heavy atoms).
Dalton's atomic theory stated that every element was made of atoms that could not be subdivided atoms of the same element are like and?
atoms are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
What color is an atom in a bomb?
atoms do not have color, in or out of bombs.
What happeneds when atoms get excited?
Atoms release a particular color of light
Do element atoms have their own color?
Element atoms do not have their own color. The color we see is a result of how light interacts with the atoms and their electrons. When light hits an atom, some of the light is absorbed and some is reflected. The color we perceive is the color of light that is reflected off the atoms. Different atoms can absorb and reflect different colors of light, resulting in the variety of colors we observe in the world.
Does the color of an element determine an atoms electronegativity?
no the color doesn't have anything to do with the electronegativity
What color is nihonium?
The color is unknown, only several unstable atoms were obtained.
What makes up the water?
2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom. H2O. the atoms have no color.
Are atoms divided up into groups according to color?
No. Atoms are divided into groups according to their proprieties and electron configurations.
What is the color code for models of atoms and molecules of carbon?
black
What does lazurite's blue color come from in atoms of which element?
copper
True or false oxygen atoms are not red in color?
True
Can the way the atoms are arranged in a mineral change the color?
Well color is caused by a lot of things, one cause is defects (missing atoms or to many atoms) in the crystal lattice (how the atoms are arranged and connected). Also if an element that is not suppose to be the mineral, makes it way into the crystal it may change the color. So Yes the way the atoms are arranged can change the color. Causes of color is a very complicated question as there are many causes and some are very poorly understood.Answer2 Consider Opal for example, SiO2.nH2O. Has many colours, even without impurities. [perhaps internal interference and refraction in this case?]
What is the usual color of an atom?
I have a feeling that atoms are too small to have colour.
