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The colour of something is usually determined by the light waves reflected by it. We see what is reflected and not what is absorbed. This applies to opaque objects as well as translucent ones.
When light goes through a spectrum, the waves are split into different colors, or spectra. The colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. That way, you can distinguish what type of light or element is is by counting the number of each type of color.
The waves are passed thru the matter or reflected by the matter or absorbed by the matter.
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Basically three things can happen to light as it strikes an object. It can be reflected, absorbed, or it can pass through. For simplicity, assume the object is not transparent; in that case, any light that is not reflected is absorbed.
The colour of something is usually determined by the light waves reflected by it. We see what is reflected and not what is absorbed. This applies to opaque objects as well as translucent ones.
When light goes through a spectrum, the waves are split into different colors, or spectra. The colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. That way, you can distinguish what type of light or element is is by counting the number of each type of color.
The waves are passed thru the matter or reflected by the matter or absorbed by the matter.
Waves that are not reflected are absorbed by whatever they hit. The energy they carried ends up slightly raising the temperature of whatever absorbs them.
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Basically three things can happen to light as it strikes an object. It can be reflected, absorbed, or it can pass through. For simplicity, assume the object is not transparent; in that case, any light that is not reflected is absorbed.
The light waves can be reflected, absorbed, they can pass the object or be refracted.,
They can be absorbed, dissipated or reflected. Or a combination of all three
You are seeing the color that the object does not absorb. It is reflecting for that color. For example, a red flower absorbs all color waves except those at the frequency of red. So in short, some light is absorbed and some is reflected
The energy in the wave is partly transmitted, partly absorbed, and partly reflected.
The energy in the wave is partly transmitted, partly absorbed, and partly reflected.
It means that when the wave is reflected, not all of the wave energy is reflected - rather, part of the wave is either absorbed or simply let through.