Does an atom have a color?
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Answer:
atoms (as opposed to molecules) do not have colors - they are clear except under special conditions.. you could not see the color of one atom or molecule - not because it is too small - but because the color of one atom would be too faint.
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Answer:
atom doesn't have a color, why?
Explanation:
atoms (as opposed to molecules) do not have colors - they are clear except under special conditions.. you could not see the color of one atom or molecule - not because it is too small - but because the color of one atom would be too faint
"But sometimes if you define an atom to have a color"
if you define "having a color" more broadly, then atoms do have a color. Let us look at the different ways an object can reflect or emit visible light and apply each one to an atom