Why is it if you mix black and white and get gray, when white is all colors and black is colorless?
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White paint reflects nearly all of the light that hits it, so because you usually shine white light on it, the paint appears white.\n\nTo test this out, try shining a green light on white paint. What colour will it be? (Green)\n\nBlack paint, on the other hand, absorbs nearly all of the light that is shining on it so nothing bounces back at you.. so it looks black.\n\nWhen you mix the black paint with the white paint, you have some of the mix absorbing the light and some of it reflecting the light. This means that when you shine a white light on the paint it doesn't reflect as much giving the dull white colour we call "gray"
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It uses different proportions of the three colours to get black, but true black can only be achieved by a black ink cartridge.\n\nIt may be your printer will take the black cartridge too.
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If it reflects all the light, it appears white. If it absorbs all the light, it appears black.
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well, first they do not show up black on white. they show up a deep shade of gray, that appears light on dark and dark on light becuase of the amount of contrast
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Its actually more complex than a typical simple black and white mix (referring to color)\n\nAlbinism is a genetic disorder that is quite recessive.  The possibility of the resulting child having the color of black, white or "blended" would depend if the child inherits the albinism. \n\nInheriting the afican parent's albinism depends on the caucasion's popsibilty of passing along albanism as well. \n\nTaking the albinism factor out of the equation and it is safe to say that the offspring of a person with black skin and a person with white skin will result in a blending of the skin colors. \n\nIt is also safe to assume that the offspring will appear to have more of an african-american (black) look as opposed to a caucasion (white) look and would appear to be a child of mixed heritage.
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What happens here is the reverse of dispersion that is the spectrum of colours obtaines which u see as the colours of rainbow or light emerging out of prism. When u spun the top all the colours get mixed to form their parent colour which is white. The same phenomenon is evident when wheel decorated with all the colours of rainbow is rotated fast.
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I prefer black and white otherwise i can mess up :)
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You may be confusing light with pigment.  If there is no light, the light can't be colored.  However, the pigment of the grass which absorbs all but green light is the same, whether light is shining on it or not.
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If when you mix the two together the solution turns clear, you have a solution.  If it makes a cloudy mixture, or if there is visible solid on the bottom, you have a heterogeneous mixture, or a non-uniform mixture, which is not a solution.
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Transparent is NO COLOR, it just means that any color can go through it. A window for example is NO COLOR.\n\nA yellow banana is yellow, but a window is NOTHING, no color, this means every color can go through it.\n\nIf a window was blue, this would mean that every color would be absorbed by the blue window except blue itself.
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Mixture of the primary colors forms a secondary color. \nFor Example,\nGreen + Red  = Yellow\nGreen + Blue = Cyan\nRed+Blue+Green = White.
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just mix 'em up  , if you give me the name of 'all ' the colours , i will tell you how to make them\n\nI guess you mean primary colours (= base colours)\nthese are yellow red and blue\n\nyellow and red will make orange\nyellow and blue will make green\nred and blue will make purple\nyellow , red and blue will make brown\nmix them up in different proportions to get all the other colours
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probably because all the other colors are taken
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black or white or any other color in dominate/recesive genes. Its a gamble really.
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Once the hair color changes, it grows in in the new color. If it has turned grey, any new hair will also be grey. Some people have hair that gets lighter as they grow older, without going grey. Myself, for instance, I had jet-black hair as a youngster, but hair that grows now is of a lighter shade. I'm digressing.\n\nThis is because the "going grey" is due to a loss of pigment in the hair follicle area, so that the pigment that once colored your hair is now gone. Since there is nothing to change the color of your hair, it comes out as grey or white, which would be the natural color of it (so to speak).\n\nNot scientific, I know, but I hope the answer helps.
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white all light, colors are the rays absorbed when all othes don't, black is the absence of color, NO THERE IS NO COLOR.\nI took a painting class where the professor took awy the use of black because of that color theory, we had to make dark shades, given that we were painting something someone could see.
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white,yellow,orange,green,blue,brown and black then the degrees then after the 5th dan or so...cant remember exactly it turns to red with white and then completly red or something....but theres also half belts the way i was taught too like half white half yellow example\n\ni also dont live in the states so we dont have purple but i guess its between blue and brown........you have to remember this color system was invented in north america...in ancient times they only had white then brown and black to represent how dirty your belt was which in turn represented how much practice you had....they didnt wash it so the dirtier the better and more experienced you were