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Your room is still fairly dark when you wake up early one morning. You look over at your shirt hanging on a hook. You know it's your red shirt because you hung it up there before you went to bed, but in the dark you can't see its color. It looks dark gray to you. Why is that hppens?

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Due To Scattering, Refraction and Defraction

Step-by-step explanation:

Red color gets scatted the most. That's why can be seen in the foggy environment, and that;s why traffic light red is the most prominent. In dark, phenomena like scattering, refraction and defraction act together. In the absence of light, scattering can be less and refraction contribute to judge the color of the object. Now between the human eyes and the object, there are two phenomena " refraction and defraction, which makes the watcher spot his shirt as dark grey.

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