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What does green look like under green light?
A yellow object appears green under green light. A cyan object appears green under green light. A magenta object appears black under green light. A red object appears red under yellow light.
What Colour light does a green object absorb?
Red
This graphic shows what color will be perceived when a material absorbs in certain regions of the visible spectrum….Complementary Colors.
| Color absorbed | Color seen |
|---|---|
| Blue | Orange |
| Green | Red |
| Yellow | Violet |
| Orange | Blue |
Why are green objects green?
The colours of visible light form a colour wheel. Within that wheel the colour an object appears to be is the colour complementary to the one it most strongly absorbs. As such, plants look green because they absorb red light most efficiently and the green light is reflected.
Why do some objects look green?
Colored objects look the way they do because of reflected light. When sunlight is shined on a green leaf, the violet, red and orange wavelengths are absorbed. The reflected wavelengths appear green. If all of the light is reflected, we see all the wavelengths, which means we see white light.
Why is an object green?
The wavelengths that are reflected determine the color that an object appears to the human eye. For example, the leaves appear green because they reflect green light and absorb light of other wavelengths. This means that the light passes through the material rather than being reflected by it.
What reflects green?
As shown in detail in the absorption spectra, chlorophyll absorbs light in the red (long wavelength) and the blue (short wavelength) regions of the visible light spectrum. Green light is not absorbed but reflected, making the plant appear green. Chlorophyll is found in the chloroplasts of plants.
Does green reflect or absorb green?
Green plants are green because they contain a pigment called chlorophyll. As shown in detail in the absorption spectra, chlorophyll absorbs light in the red (long wavelength) and the blue (short wavelength) regions of the visible light spectrum. Green light is not absorbed but reflected, making the plant appear green.
What does a green object look like under a red light?
A green object would look blaack in a red light because coloured objects absorb all colours except the colour they are, so a green object absorbs 6 colours (red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, violet) and reflects 1 (green). In this situation, there is no green light to reflect and it can’t reflect other colours, so it looks black. Home
What does yellow light look like in green light?
The answer to this really depends on the specific yellow light and the specific green object. If the yellow light is a pure light of a single wavelength, and the green surface only reflects light in the wavelength range of green, the object will appear black.
What happens when you shine yellow light on blue paper?
That is, blue paper can absorb both red and green primary colors of light (recall that yellow light is a mixture of red and green light). So red and green light shine on the paper; and both the red and the green light are subtracted. There is no color left to be reflected to the eye.
Why does a yellow object appear to be black?
If the yellow light is a pure light of a single wavelength, and the green surface only reflects light in the wavelength range of green, the object will appear black. In most situations however light is usually composed of a wide range of wavelengths that merely peak in a certain color, say in this case, yellow.