What is white?
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The Color of the White Waterfall
This is our lab where we do m r and d work and also quality control. On the paints that come out of the factory. So and there's an open can of white paint over there there is. I couldn't help but notice, why is that white? How come that to white? That's white because we've got materials in there which scatter light at all wave lengths across the electromagnetic spectrum. The reason for that is the difference between adative and subtractive colour mixing. With the adative colour mixing, which is related to light, if you add all the different wave lengths together, then you get your whites. If you think about think about if you've got a red
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