What is white?
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Is Water the Opposite of White?
Water is almost entirely transparent because it doesn't absorb really any visible light that passes through it. It does actually have a very slight blue tinge because the oxygen hydrogen bombs within the h to molecule absorbs some red light. So so transparent with slight bluish tint, is all f the colors, minus a little bit of red. What is white? So if you take a white light and shine it on to a white object, it appears white because it's reflecting every wave length of light equally back at you without any kind of bias towards short or long wave lengths i go. And as we've just discussed, water doesn't entirely do that. Its water's the inverse of that, if
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