Look at the above picture. What is the colour of the leaf?
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Pretty confusing? What was your answer? Type it down here. Wanna know how? Really am not cheating. I saw it on a TV show a few months before. Ok. This is why it happens. It deals with the properties of the leaf. The leaf might be able to absorb all colours of the spectrum (or the ray of light) except green. So, instead of absorbing green, it starts to reflect it. Hence the colour we see is actually the colour from the ray of light that was not absorbed bu reflected by the object we see. It's what we see on all colours on all objects-except black (since it absorbs all colours) and white (since it reflects all colours).