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One of life's many mysteries and unanswered questions ......

What colour is a mirror?

harmonyhex wrote:

> One of life's many mysteries and unanswered questions ......
>
> What colour is a mirror?
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>
Good question Ms Hex.Here's another one.
Why is the Sky Blue?

Mike Parry from talksport radio reckons it's because it's a reflection of the sea!!!!!

You could'nt make it up!!!! !laugh!

A mirror, I suppose, is of infinite colour, reflecting anything we fire at it in the visible spectrum. My answer: every, or any, colour.

Why is the sky blue? The answer is even on a TV advert: light scattering due to nitrogen atoms.

!hmmm!

Depends on which part of the mirror the glass or the frame, if you mean the glass part, it is not a colour if you mean the frame, there are loads of colours to choose from.......did I win a free breakfast or owt?

Lizard wrote:

> Depends on which part of the mirror the glass or the frame, if
> you mean the glass part, it is not a colour if you mean the
> frame, there are loads of colours to choose from.......did I
> win a free breakfast or owt?
>
>

Lol... yes with that answer I think you certainly qualify to win one of
trumptons all day breakfasts in a tin.

ATS wrote:

> Lizard wrote:
>
> > Depends on which part of the mirror the glass or the frame,
> if
> > you mean the glass part, it is not a colour if you mean the
> > frame, there are loads of colours to choose from.......did I
> > win a free breakfast or owt?
> >
> >
>
> Lol... yes with that answer I think you certainly qualify to
> win one of
> trumptons all day breakfasts in a tin.

After he's eaten it.....

And digested it.

Another one
Why are Greenhouses not actually green?

This could go on all day !laugh!

Fudgey's right.....kind of.

A mirror reflects whatever light is thrown at it, at the same angle it receives that light. No objects have a 'colour' but only seem to because of the light they reflect back/absorb.

Leaves are green because the pigment chlorophyll helps absorb most colours in the visible spectrum, though bounces back more blue and yellow which together look green to our eyes.

Same principle as to why the sky is blue: Light is the whole range of colours together, and looks pure white to us. While passing through the atmosphere, the light from the sun starts as pure white. Upon hitting the atmospheric particles, the shorter wavelengths, like Indigo, blue, green and purple are reflected off the atoms and bounced all over the place by all the different atoms. This makes the light that reaches our eyes via these atoms are just of the blue wavelength, and thus, the sky looks blueish.

The longer wavelengths of red, yellow and orange pass straight through the atoms, so don't get scattered about as much, and that's why the sun looks yellowish/orange.

Eh?