why is the apple red?
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Objects, like apples, reflect certain waves of light, making the colours we see.\n\nWe see colour because light is made up different wavelengths. Objects absorb certain wavelengths of light while reflecting others. An apple appears to be red because it reflects the red wavelength while absorbing all the other colours.
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b cus the old apple is too old so had no juice anymore
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The 'apple' as you call it is actually a combination of two symbols. The | that represents power on and the O that represent power off. When joined to make the 'apple' it represent one switch to do both.\n\nI hope this helps.
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well andy worhal designed the orrgianl rainbow mac and if you have seen his other work it was probably drug induced. but it was eluded to that the apple came from steve jobs fruit diet he had for a while after coming back from the orient and i mean when jobs and wozniak started apple they were big jokers so it wouldnt suprise me if they we just eating apples and said why not make that our logo.
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because Korea wear red
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It's a fruit, product of a tree!
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Today was red, and the word was "can".\n\nThanks for your help too! :)
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Yes. My grandmother is blind from a disease known as maculuar degeneration.  She dreams in full color.  She doesn't know if the colors look like what everyone else sees, according to her.  But she dreams about an apple and it is what she thinks red should be.  She can "see" what an apple looks like by feeling its shape and texture.  She imagines the rest.
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I cannot tell you what the Forbidden fruit exactly was, but nowhere in the Old Testament (which is where the story is from) is there any mention of it being an Apple.\n\nI think the idea of it being an apple came about due to paintings, usually from the renaissance, that depicted the scene and showed it as an apple. Why they chose to paint is as an apple, I don't know, but I am sure there are reasons, perhaps having to do with what fruit was availble in Europe. \n\nBut I could be wrong about the fruit in europe part :)\n\nOne last thing - I don't know what all the Christian denominations hold, but I think many religions view the forbidden fruit as a more spiritual entity then a physical one.
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Red because it's a brighter color (traffic lights and cars' brake lights are red)
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Because it's not red!
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I believe your question is why. So here is the answer. These fruits contain Iron which rusts when exposed in the air to oxygen and water vapor. This rust is reddish brown or brown.
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Some Dude is correct.  Red coloration is attractive to birds.  Red fruit get's eaten by the birds and the fruid seed passes through the birds digestive tract to hopefully grow up in it's new location.\n\nThe flowers that are normally pollinated by birds instead of insects are usually red, to attract their pollinators.
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IDK but it's red and black!
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To "see red" is to become very angry or enraged.\n\nI think it's related to a bull seeing a red flag (as in a bull fight), and charging it.
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It is self explanatory. Say you buy six apples and there are no more for sale. One may have a bad spot and you ask the person selling them; "You have any better apples" They say; "What you see is what you get". Best I can explain it to you.
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Very good question!  Nowhere in the bible does it say that the tree of knowledge was an apple tree.  How rediculous does that sound?  The apple and the apple tree was simply an artists rendering of what s/he thought the event would have looked like.  The artwork was probably done sometime in the 8th century in Europe anyway.