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How is a brown object appear brown when white light is reflected on it even though brown is not a colour component of white light?​
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How is a brown object appear brown when white light is reflected on it even though brown is not a colour component of white light?​

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If all the colours are reflected the surface would appear white but if all the colours are absorbed the surface will appear to be black
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