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Grade 9General Physics

What determines the color of a pure substance and is it possible to predict it?

Profile image of rishav kumar
12 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Vikas TU
6 Years ago
The color of a substance is decided at various levels. The most "trivial" level is the molecule in gas phase. You have a molecule, all by itself, and when you send some white light on it you provide all the colors of the spectrum.