At 10/17/09 09:18 AM, ColdRicePudding wrote:
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"What is the colour of a mirror?"
If you think about it, the mirror could be considerated black, since it reflect all the light spectrum. At the base, the color of an object is in fact the opposed color it really is, let me explain:
The object X is receiving an Y amount of light. The object absorb some of the light ( but if the object is white is because he as absorbed all the light spectrum, as black is that all the spectrum is reflected) and the rest of it is reflected, which appear to us as the color of the said object. So a mirror be considerated black. Or we could say that the mirror is 100% reflective of light spectrum due to is clear surface.
So there 2 answer: Or the mirror is theoriticaly black thus reflection the entire light spectrum, or due to is clear surface it reflect 100% of the light spectrum, having no real collor at all.
P.S: The green color you see on the side of the mirror is a, if I remember well, chimical product that fix the reflective powder ( I think its silver powder) to the other componnent.