ELIF: Why do dark colors attract more heat?
In: Physics
Darker colors only absorb more heat in the sunlight. If you are wearing a black shirt inside your house, you won’t get too hot bc the lightbulbs aren’t putting off very much heat with their light.
When you are in the sun, the light that is hitting you comes with the heat that the sun radiates. Since a darker color is absorbing more light, it is also absorbing more of the suns heat.
Interesting thing to think about: everything you see appears that color because of the light it reflects. So, leaves are reflecting green light, and absorbing all the other colors of visible light.
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