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When only one color of light reflects from a plece of paper, what happens to the other colors of light? Remember thatlight is energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed
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When only one color of light reflects from a plece of paper, what happens to the other colors of light? Remember thatlight is energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed

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We will have the following:

Light of one color reflects from a piece of paper since all other wavelengths of light have been absorbed by the material; thus the paper gains some energy and some of the resultant energy is reflected.

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