What determines what light is reflected back creating colors? I know color is reflected light, but what determines that? Does it have to doing with

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The frequency of the electrons? Idk

In: Physics

Answer 1

Close! Frequency of the photons of light. Sources of light often emit a wide range of frequencies. The sun, for example, emits a full spectrum of frequencies extending beyond the visible spectrum. Things that light hits will reflect or absorb some of those photons depending on the properties of the molecules they hit and what it does to the molecules’ electrons when hit.