What colour is mirror?

So, what does a mirror reflect back? In white light, which includes the wavelengths of the visible spectrum, the colour of an object is dictated by those wavelengths of light that its surface atoms fail to mop up. As a perfect mirror reflects back all the colours comprising white light, it's also white.
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What is the real color of mirror?

A mirror might look silver because it's usually depicted that way in books or movies. However, it's actually the color of whatever is reflected onto it. A perfect mirror has specular reflection, meaning it reflects all light in a single direction equal to what it receives.
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Is a mirror white or silver?

So mirror seem to reflect all the colour but not absorb them, it that means mirror it white? Here is a simply geometry of how mirror treat the incoming light ray. Mirror will REFLECT all the incoming light ray in the same angle as the ray come in and out. Yes!!!
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Are mirrors silver or green?

Modern mirrors are made by silvering, or spraying a thin layer of silver or aluminum onto the back of a sheet of glass. The silica glass substrate reflects a bit more green light than other wavelengths, giving the reflected mirror image a greenish hue.
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What is the RGB for metallic silver?

The color silver (metallic) with hexadecimal color code #aaa9ad is a medium light shade of blue-magenta. In the RGB color model #aaa9ad is comprised of 66.67% red, 66.27% green and 67.84% blue.
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What Color Is A Mirror?



Are mirrors blue?

That isn't actually too inaccurate, because mirrors are made out of silver or similar materials, like aluminum. But actually, a mirror is whatever color is in front of it. if you point a mirror at a blue wall, it's blue.
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Are mirrors technically white?

A mirror reflects all colours pretty much perfectly, so technically, shouldn't it be white? Well, sort of, except a mirror doesn't reflect colours the same way that pigment does, Vsauce explains. Those Post-it notes reflect yellow light back in all directions at once, no matter which direction it came from.
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What is the difference between the color white and a mirror?

If you shine a beam of light onto a white surface, it is scattered in all the directions. On the other hand, a mirror reflect the light symmetrically to the input direction, with no scattering.
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What color is a water?

The water is in fact not colorless; even pure water is not colorless, but has a slight blue tint to it, best seen when looking through a long column of water. The blueness in water is not caused by the scattering of light, which is responsible for the sky being blue.
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How is a mirror silver?

In modern aluminum silvering, a sheet of glass is placed in a vacuum chamber with electrically heated nichrome coils that can evaporate aluminum. In a vacuum, the hot aluminum atoms travel in straight lines. When they hit the surface of the mirror, they cool and stick.
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What color is a brain?

The human brain color physically appears to be white, black, and red-pinkish while it is alive and pulsating. Images of pink brains are relative to its actual state. The brains we see in movies are detached from the blood and oxygen flow result to exhibit white, gray, or have a yellow shadow.
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Is clear a color?

Is Clear Considered a Color? No, clear is certainly not considered a color due to various reasons. First and foremost, we know that all the colors appear because of the amount of light reflected, emitted, or absorbed through an object, but with 'clear,' we notice that there is no reflection/absorption taking place.
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What the mirror Cannot see?

Because everything you see is just a reflected or projected image. That's what vision is. Nothing is truly seen in a mirror.
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Are mirrors green?

As a perfect mirror reflects back all the colours comprising white light, it's also white. That said, real mirrors aren't perfect, and their surface atoms give any reflection a very slight green tinge, as the atoms in the glass reflect back green light more strongly than any other colour.
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What color is glass clear?

Glass, for example, is transparent to all visible light. The color of a transparent object depends on the color of light it transmits. If green light passes through a transparent object, the emerging light is green; similarly if red light passes through a transparent object, the emerging light is red.
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What colour is the air?

Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.
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Why does my mirror look blue?

In response to headlights or even bright sunlight shining into your vehicle, rearview mirrors with this feature will dim themselves and take on a blue tint, which reduces the amount of light reflected at you.
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What is tinted mirror?

Tinted mirrors are exactly what the name suggests, mirrors with a colored tint. Because of the colored hue manufactured into the glass, a tinted mirror might appear a little bit darker than its normal silvered counterpart. Some of the tinted mirrors also have texture.
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What is mirror made of?

The most common mirrors consist of a plate of transparent glass, with a thin reflective layer on the back (the side opposite to the incident and reflected light) backed by a coating that protects that layer against abrasion, tarnishing, and corrosion.
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What color is shiny silver?

Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling gray that is a representation of the color of polished silver.
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