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To get white light, you must mix all the colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet)

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What color is obtained when you mix yellow light and blue light?

When you mix yellow light and blue light, you get white light. Yellow light and blue light are complementary colors that, when combined, create a white light due to their combined wavelengths stimulating all three types of color receptors in our eyes.


How do blue light and yellow light combine to make white light?

Blue light and yellow light are both components of white light. When combined, the blue and yellow light waves overlap and mix to form white light because they stimulate all three types of color receptors in our eyes, allowing us to see a full spectrum of colors.


What colour does yellow light and blue light make?

Light actually works differently than paint, for example. Yellow light is made up of green and red light, so if you added blue light into the mix, you'd get...white light. This depends on the intensity of the two light beams, so you could get a yellow hued white light or a blue hued white light, as well.


What color do you get if you mix light blue and yellow?

You would get a greenish color when mixing light blue and yellow.


Why do blue and red and yellow light make white light?

It is Blue, Green and Red that produce white light. The Blue Yellow and Red is on paint mixing. The white light with all spectrum at same portion but human eye can sense the light only at 3 peak portion of spectrum Blue (420nm) Green (534nm) and Red (564nm). Our brain estimate color in between from intensity of these 3 portion of light hit the eye.

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What color is obtained when you mix yellow light and blue light?

When you mix yellow light and blue light, you get white light. Yellow light and blue light are complementary colors that, when combined, create a white light due to their combined wavelengths stimulating all three types of color receptors in our eyes.


What two colors mix to make light green?

dark green and white or yellow and blue


When you mix red blue yellow and white you get what color?

light brown. red,yellow and blue make brown and if you mix white with it it should go lighter.


What color do you get if you mix red blue yellow white?

You get a light brown.


What color do you make when you mix red yellow and blue light?

When you mix red, yellow, and blue light, you create white light. This is known as additive color mixing, where the mixing of different colors of light results in the appearance of white light.


What color do you get when you mix yellow and light blue?

When you mix yellow and light blue, you get green.


What color do you see when you mix red blue and green light?

Yellow


What color do you get when you mix blue and white?

You get light blue.


What do you need to mix with light blue to get yellow?

Blue is a tone of a primary color, basically blue with some white in it. Yellow is also a primary color. It is not possible to mix to achieve a primary color, therefore there is no way to get from light blue to yellow..


How do blue light and yellow light combine to make white light?

Blue light and yellow light are both components of white light. When combined, the blue and yellow light waves overlap and mix to form white light because they stimulate all three types of color receptors in our eyes, allowing us to see a full spectrum of colors.


What do we get if we mix yellow and white?

Light Yellow


What colors do you mix to get light yellow?

yellow and white. light green and yellow orange yellow and white