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Excursion into Science –
How we see colors higher frequency
lower frequency
UV
IR
wavelength (nm)
This year, sisterMAG is juggling with colors, focusing especially on how they affect various aspects of life. How gray sets against yellow, for example, or blue against pink. Colors decorate our lives, create moods, and arouse our discern for preference, orientation, and well-being. Colors are the salt in the soup of our lives – but
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how do we perceive them? Since Newton we’ve been knowing that white light can be decomposed into individual color components by dispersion in a prism. Each of these individual colors has a particular wavelength. The sum of all these spectral colors yields a white light. For humans, the wavelength range is 400 to 700
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