Colour colour what colour do you choose?

Chemistry Level pending

Look at the above picture. What is the colour of the leaf?

Everything but green Green Everything but blue Blue

Vishnu Menon by Vishnu Menon , 20, India

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Vishnu Menon
Apr 30, 2014

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).

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Depends on how you define 'colour'. Many would argue that it refers to the wavelength of light that you actually see (i.e. the wavelength reflected or emitted), not what wavelengths are absorbed by the object in question.

A K - 7 years, 1 month ago

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