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  2. Electromagnetic spectrum - Wikipedia

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    By definition, visible light is the part of the EM spectrum the human eye is the most sensitive to. Visible light (and near-infrared light) is typically absorbed and emitted by electrons in molecules and atoms that move from one energy level to another. This action allows the chemical mechanisms that underlie human vision and plant photosynthesis.

  3. Color - Wikipedia

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    Colored pencils. Color (American English) or colour (British and Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum.Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, reflection, emission spectra, and interference.

  4. Additive color - Wikipedia

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    Additive color or additive mixing is a property of a color model that predicts the appearance of colors made by coincident component lights, i.e. the perceived color can be predicted by summing the numeric representations of the component colors. [1]

  5. Xanthophyll - Wikipedia

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    For example, the yellow color of chicken egg yolks, fat, and skin comes from ingested xanthophylls—primarily lutein, which is added to chicken feed for this purpose. The yellow color of the macula lutea (literally, yellow spot) in the retina of the human eye results from the presence of lutein and zeaxanthin. Again, both these specific ...

  6. Shades of orange - Wikipedia

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    A discussion of the difference between the color orange (the color halfway between red and yellow, shown above as color wheel orange) and the color orange peel (the actual color of the outer skin of an orange), may be found in Maerz and Paul. [12] Orange peel is the color halfway between orange (color wheel) and amber on the color wheel.

  7. Sodium-vapor lamp - Wikipedia

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    The yellow color of low-pressure sodium lamps also leads to the least visual sky glow, due primarily to the Purkinje shift of dark-adapted human vision, causing the eye to be relatively insensitive to the yellow light scattered at low luminance levels in the clear atmosphere.

  8. Traffic light - Wikipedia

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    Popular in Vietnam and China, countdown lights are additional lights installed next to (or above or below) the main signal lights. The countdown light is displayed by a countdown number with different colors (usually red, yellow, green), matching the color of the light on. When the light counts to "0" (or 1), the main light color immediately ...

  9. Diamond color - Wikipedia

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    Faint Yellow: 3.5 3.5–3.99 Tinted white Tinted white Top cape Tinted white Top cape 6 3.76–4.5 Silver cape L 4.0 4.0–4.49 M 4.5 4.5–4.99 7 4.51–5.50 Tinted color 1 Tinted color Slightly colored to colored: Cape Tinted color Light cape Cape N Very Light Yellow: 5.0 5.0–5.49 Tinted color 2 Low Cape O 5.5 5.5–5.99 8 5.51–7.0 Light ...