How does matter (on an atomic scale) get its color?

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How does matter (on an atomic scale) get its color?

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The matter in itself doesn’t have colour, it’s about the way it interacts with light. There’s no such thing as a green atom or a blue atom, it’s about how different lengths of light waves bounce off it and how we see that. That’s why different animals see different colours

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