2006-07-27 00:22:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Water is Colorless! ( Just like out of your Kitchen Sink! )
The colours that the Human Eye sees...Depend on the colors reflected by the Sky...the Depth & Clarity of the water...Strength of Wind...and, at times, what's Below the Surface!
2006-07-27 00:24:57 · answer #1 · answered by AlbertaGuy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I answered a question similar to this yesterday. Even though the water might appear to be clear, sea water has a very high concentration of minerals dissolved in it. That's why when you swim in sea water you come out with a film. The color of sea water relies proportions of the minerals dissolved in the water itself. That's why some sea water looks green other sea water looks brown...and yet more sea water looks blue. Here is an interesting thought for you...for the most part (other than clouds and pollution) our atmosphere is transparent...then why does it look blue!? Actually in this case it is a reflection, but i don't have the explanation behind that...has something to do with the fact that the earth is covered 3/4 by water which reflects blue light...
2006-07-27 02:06:21 · answer #2 · answered by Dustin S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok you recognize the way lakes are (frequently) no longer sparkling or blue correct? properly thats because of phytoplankton and theres a lot that phytoplankton it is supplies the river a tint, like the chlorophyll in flowers. Now the sea nevertheless has those phytoplankton, in even better numbers. yet you recognize the way huge the sea is, each and every of the plankton contained in the international wont influence the coloration. And Im no longer particular if the salt helps in any respect, besides the undeniable fact that it may. So thats why ocean/sea water is blue. Now ingesting water is sparkling because properly, its purified. No chemical compounds, no creatures, no debris of something till your lips contact it (except its from the tap, in which case it includes a range of of non risky doses of metals and different such issues as arsenic and iron) So without maximum of those different aspects, the water is distilled in its maximum organic style and could change into sparkling.
2016-10-15 06:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water is colorless. What human eyes see is a reflection of the light from the sky
2006-07-27 00:34:39 · answer #4 · answered by Black Shadow 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water absorbs infrared radiation better than shorter wave lengths, then some of the blue side of the light spectrum reflects and this is why water appears blu.
2006-07-27 01:10:36 · answer #5 · answered by Brint 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the colour of the sky is blue because white light from the sun passes through the clouds here serving as a prism and different colurwave lengths are spread.the wave legthof blu is shorter so blue is seen.the colour reflects on the water below and is also seen as blue.same when the sky is grey and its about to rain.
2006-07-27 00:30:34 · answer #6 · answered by onel2k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sea (and sky) are blue due to Rayleigh scattering (named after Lord Rayleigh), which is the scattering of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light. It occurs when light travels in transparent solids and liquids, but is most prominently seen in gases.
2006-07-27 08:59:23 · answer #7 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be that blue is reflected out of the light spectrum, the same as green is reflected from the plants leaves, the other colors of the spectrum are absorbed.
2006-07-27 00:31:16 · answer #8 · answered by nino 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the water absorbes the suns uv rays which brings out the color spectrum, and depending on the suns angle to the water it is murkier or clearer, like the bermudas.
2006-07-27 08:49:29 · answer #9 · answered by tjcafootballplayanumber74 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reflection of the sky onto the water
2006-07-27 00:25:15 · answer #10 · answered by Jessi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋