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What is white?

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Why Waterfaols Are White When Water Is Transparent

Simon Clark is a recovering academic who writes about atmospheric science. He explains how light gives objects their colour and why water turns white when it's transparent. The answer to the question of why waterfaols are white can only be found by looking at them through a prism, he says.

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