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Water Colors
Name: Ron
Status: other
Age: 12
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: 1999
Question:
Okay, when you look at water it appears to have no color.
However, isn't clear a color. How would you come up with the color
clear?
2nd when you freeze water it is the color white, but when it melts it
loses its color, why?
3rd paint comes in a clear coat is it actually clear or colorless? If so
is clear a color?
Replies:
Clear means transparent. Transparent is a characteristic of some
materials
that allows light to pass through it and maintain an image. Clear is
not a
color. Colored items can be clear, such as some stained glass, plastic
(as
in some green soda bottles), and other materials. Clear items can also
be
colorless, such as the air.
Frozen water sometimes appears white due to air that is trapped in the
solid. One way to make ice that does not have the dissolved gas is to
use
boiled water, pouring it carefully into an ice tray, and then freeze it.
Good question!
---Nathan A. Unterman
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