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What is the colour of white?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

White is technically every colour of the spectrum (all the colours you see in a rainbow). People often label white as its own colour though as it's simpler.

You can show that white is an amalgamation of every colour by splitting it up. This is achieved by putting a glass triangular prism in the middle of a narrow beam of light and a white piece of paper behind. The paper will show you the light after the prism has diffracted it (diffraction is the apparent bending of light when it passes from one medium to another where there's a change in density).

The difference in wavelengths of the different coloured lights (this is how the retina detects colour, sensitivity to wavelength) mean that the different colours get bent different amounts. This will give the image of a rainbow (all the colours of the spectrum) on the piece of paper.

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