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It will look red.

White light is made up of a spectrum of many colours.

The primary colours are red, green and blue.

An object (in white light) appears yellow because it reflects red and green light but absorbs blue light.

In red light, the same object will simply reflect the red light. Since there is no green light, the object will appear red. (A mixture of red and green gives yellow)

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