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

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Answer 1

Not sure about the reflected light part, but the human eye mainly sees in 3 colors: Red, Green, and Blue. Any other color the eye can see is a mixture of those 3 colors. I’m not an expert so maybe someone can correct me.