Are there infinite colors?

There are an infinite number of fundamental colors, if by "fundamental" you mean "spectral". Spectral colors are also known loosely as rainbow colors. A spectral color is composed of a single fundamental color on the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, as opposed to a mixture of colors.
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How many colors can exist?

It all sort of depends on what exactly you mean by “infinite.” It has been determined by people who determine such things that there are somewhere around 18 decillion varieties of colors available for your viewing enjoyment. That's an 18 followed by 33 zeros.
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What colors do not exist?

Red-green and yellow-blue are the so-called "forbidden colors." Composed of pairs of hues whose light frequencies automatically cancel each other out in the human eye, they're supposed to be impossible to see simultaneously. The limitation results from the way we perceive color in the first place.
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What color is infinity?

What color represents infinity? The Blue Color reminds us first of all the nature and infinite since reminded us directly to the sea and the sky. Blue is a color that symbolizes peace, calm, serenity, freshness but also the sensitivity.
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What color Cannot be created?

First, no two colors can be mixed to create a primary color. In other words, primary colors can only be created through the use of natural pigments. Secondly, all other colors found on the color wheel can be created by mixing primary colors together. The secondary colors are orange, green, and purple.
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Are there colors that we CAN'T see?



What is the newest color?

YInMn Blue (/jɪnmɪn/; for yttrium, indium, manganese), also known as Oregon Blue or Mas Blue, is an inorganic blue pigment that was discovered by Mas Subramanian and his (then) graduate student, Andrew Smith, at Oregon State University in 2009.
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What is the rarest color in nature?

Blue is one of the rarest of colors in nature. Even the few animals and plants that appear blue don't actually contain the color.
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What colour is immortal?

The color amaranth represents immortality in Western civilization because the name is derived from the name in Greek mythology of a flower that was believed to never die that grew in the abode of the Greek gods on Mount Olympus.
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Is universe a color?

The team determined that the average color of the universe is a beige shade not too far off from white.
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What is the super rare color?

1. Lapis Lazuli. Lapus Lazuli is a blue mineral so rare that in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance it was actually more valuable than gold.
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What is the legendary color?

Legendary is a soft, gray, millennial beige with a silvery undertone. It is a perfect paint color for a living room or exterior home.
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Is color just an illusion?

Colour is an illusion, not part of the real world

“Every colour that people see is actually inside their head … and the stimulus of colour, of course, is light.” As light pours down on us from the sun, or from a lightbulb in our home, objects and surfaces absorb some wavelengths of light and reflect others.
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Can I imagine a new color?

To sum up, we can only see our own visible spectrum (the colours of the rainbow) and nothing else. And you can't imagine a colour you've never experienced before. It's just the limitations of your brain and your senses. So, those are the colours you're stuck with for the rest of your life.
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What colors can't human eyes see?

The human eye can only see visible light, but light comes in many other "colors"—radio, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray—that are invisible to the naked eye.
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How many colors can human eye?

HOW MANY COLORS CAN HUMANS SEE? Researchers estimate that most humans can see around one million different colors. This is because a healthy human eye has three types of cone cells, each of which can register about 100 different color shades, amounting to around a million combinations.
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What is the actual colour of space?

If we add up all the light coming from galaxies (and the stars within them), and from all the clouds of gas and dust in the Universe, we'd end up with a colour very close to white, but actually a little bit 'beige'.
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What color is a mirror?

According to BBC Science Focus Magazine, most mirrors are technically white with a slight green tinge. According to Live Science, color is a result of reflected light. To produce color, objects absorb some wavelengths of light while reflecting others.
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Is space all black?

Above the Earth's atmosphere, outer space dims even further, fading to an inky pitch-black. And yet even there, space isn't absolutely black. The universe has a suffused feeble glimmer from innumerable distant stars and galaxies. This artist's illustration shows NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in the outer solar system.
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Do colors truly exist?

Colour is not a physical property of an object - it is a sensation, just like smell or taste. Colour is generated only when light of a particular wavelength falls onto the retina of the eye and specialized sensory cells generate a nerve impulse, which is routed to the brain where it is perceived as being colour.
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What is the most unloved color?

Orange. Above all other colors, orange took home the medal for the most-hated Color.
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Is there a color called heaven?

An airy, ethereal gray with a soothing touch of lavender. LRV, or Light Reflectance Value, is a measurement commonly used by design professionals—such as architects and interior designers—that expresses the percentage of light reflected from a surface.
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What's the weirdest color name?

17 Obscure Colors You've Never Heard Of
  • Gamboge.
  • Glaucous.
  • Sarcoline.
  • Skobeloff.
  • Smaragdine.
  • Wenge.
  • Vantablack.
  • Zaffre.
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What is the longest color name?

The longest color name is coquelicot with 10 letters. Originally another word for poppy, coquelicot is the flower's orange-tinted red color.
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What is the hardest color to look at?

Blue is the hardest color to see as more light energy is required for a full response from blue-violet cones, compared to green or red.
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What is the hardest color to produce?

The color blue has been the Holy Grail for pyrotechnics experts since fireworks were invented more than a millennium ago. It's by far the hardest color to produce.
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