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Why is a black car black?

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Tracystyles

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Because its pigment absorbs all parts (colours) of the visible light spectrum, so it's not really correct to call black a colour, but rather "the absence of colour". Similarly, red pigment will absorb all but the red component of light.

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