Answering the questions you’ve always been too embarrassed to ask.
Even though small amounts of water appear to be totally clear and colourless, larger bodies of water look blue. What’s going on?
All colours are the result of matter absorbing some parts of the visible (white) light spectrum, and reflecting others. The parts of the spectrum that are reflected back to us, give objects their colour.
But how can something that appears colourless, like water, also have an intrinsic colour?
This story is from the Issue 02-2017 (108) edition of Scuba Diver.
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