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Is a mirror white or silver?
I will start off with giving you guys the answer: the colour of mirror is not white nor silver. When a white light hit the surface of a green paper, it will absorb all the colours but diffuse green. And some of these green light rays come to our eye so we “see” it is green.
Is there a mirror that reflects 100\% of light?
Yes, it is possible. If you think about it, below a certain angle, you get total internal reflection – so if light is forced to strike it at certain angles, then it will always be reflected.
Whats the difference between white and a mirror?
The difference is the direction the light is emitted in. Mirrors ‘bounce’ light in a predictable direction, white objects scatter light. A white object reflects the light in all the directions, independently of the original direction. It is called a diffuse reflection.
Are mirrors clear?
Today, mirrors are usually made of clear glass that has been coated on one side with a thin film of metal, such as silver or aluminum. The mirrors in most bathrooms are these types of mirrors, known as plane mirrors.
What color is a mirror riddle?
What color is a mirror? It sounds like one of those deep, paradoxical questions a Buddhist monk might ponder on top of a mountain, but the answer is actually surprisingly straightforward: it’s a faint shade of light green.
Is 100\% reflection possible?
It is probably impossible to get 100\% reflection. However, you can get extremely close using dielectric mirrors like a Bragg mirror. In case of total internal reflection, all (100\%) incident light is reflected back into the same medium. There is no loss of intensity.
Does a perfect mirror exist?
Conventional mirrors all work in a very simple way: they block the passage of light (or sound, or water, or radio waves), and so they have no choice but to reflect. As you can imagine, the reflection is never perfect, with some energy being absorbed by the material, or scattered in different directions.
Why do mirrors not look white?
Why doesn’t the surface of a mirror appear white, rather than reflecting images into our eyes? The answer, Livingston explains, rests in part on the penetration by light. A mirror is essentially a plate of glass coated with a thin film of metal, such as silver.
Is white more reflective than a mirror?
A mirror reflects all colours in a uniform way. White paint reflects more than a mirror. A mirror reflects an incident light ray in only one direction which is called “mirror reflection”.
Can a mirror be white?
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.
Why are mirrors white?
Some multiple-reflected light can reemerge from the material surface, but without the same orientation, as that which reflects off a mirror. Yet, when the same water crystallizes into irregularly packed snow flakes, multiple and diffuse light reflection results in a white surface.