Is black considered a color???

Question

Thank you for your detailed answer...tom science

Answer 1

no. it is the complete lack of color. it absorbs all the suns rays taht would be reflected as color. that is why when you wear black it gets so hot. your absorbing the light energy

Answer 2

In science, black is what you see when all color producing wavelengths are absorbed by an object so technically, black isn't really a color but actually describes what you aren't seeing.

This is an example of one of those questions that has 2 perfectly reasonable answers. For most purposes (like in Art), Black is called a color for the sake of being practical.

Answer 3

Technically it is not a color because light does not reflect on perfect black bodies. From a laymans point of view, it is a color. You dont tell the shopkeeper "I want a dress that has no color". So treat it as a color when you are at a mall and not a color when you are in the advanced physics lab!

Answer 4

- Hey, is black considered a color?
-Yes...
- is white considered a color?
- Yes.
- See !!!! I sold you a COLOR TV !!! (good old joke)

There is a difference: color of emmited light, or color of an object. You can imagine a flashlight that emits while light, yellow light, red light.. but not a black light! Emmitting a black light is like having you flashlight off. (not to be confused by "black light" at the night clubs - that is obviuosly violet)
However, there are objects that are black. Right?
Yes. When we describe objects, we acually refer to what color do they absorb, not what they emmit. Black objects absorb ALL the light that hits them, nothing is emmited back from them. On the contrary, white objects reflect the entire spectrum. Red object reflect only red, while absorbing everything else.

So in terms of emmited light - there is no black color light ever emitted. In terms of absorbtion - yes. Black objects exist; they absorb all the light.

Answer 5

Technically no, and here's why: take a bright red sweater, and walk into a closet with a light on. What colour is the sweater? Red, of course. Now turn the light off or close the door. What colour is the sweater now? It's black. Black isn't a colour itself, because colours are made by light's reflection. Since black is made by there being no light (either in the room, or reflecting off of the object) it's actually the absence of colour: it's nothing. You might say that black is a colour in the same way that zero pounds is a weight, or that silence is a sound: you can't really, because it's the opposite. Black is the opposite of colour.

Here is a site that probably explains it better than me:

http://www.city.ac.uk/colourgroup/faq.html

Answer 6

Black is the absence of color. In clothing, black is visually slimming. Black, like other dark colors, can make a room appear to shrink in size and even a well-lit room looks dark with a lot of black. Black can make other colors appear brighter.

Answer 7

yes it is but some painting doesnt use black,they use dark color and mixed up insted
there a lot of name after black:

Carbon black
Ivory black
Ebony
Charcoal black
Mars black

Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning.

In physics, a black body is a perfect absorber of light, but by a rule derived by Einstein it is also, when heated, the best emitter. Thus, the best radiative cooling, out of sunlight, is by using black paint, though it is important that it be black (a nearly perfect absorber) in the infrared as well.

In elementary science far Ultraviolet light is called "black light" because, unseen (per se), it causes many minerals and other substances to fluoresce.

A "black day", in these cultures, would refer to a sad or tragic day. The Romans already marked fasti days with white stones and nefasti days with black.

Answer 8

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Is black considered a color???
Thank you for your detailed answer...tom science

Answer 9

depends on your point of view.

If you're considering from the artistic point of view, then yes.

From the physics point of view, however, a color is defined by a patern of electromagnetic frequencies (in the visible light frequencies). And black is the absence of light, so there is no patern. It's any other color, but with zero intensity.

Answer 10

There are many perspective. For a living being a colour is a kind of sensation of photo sensitive cells of the eye. If it does not gets any ray from any surface then it appears to be black or dark. But primarily matters (non living) have the property of having a colour, it is first responsible for a light a ray to be reflected or not.

In other words thing can be made black. So it exists.

Answer 11

Of course. Its the nature's primary color. though not obtained from the prism as white both of them are considered natural and opposite to each other.
Where white significance peace and serenity black does not mean anger. its means the strategy you plan out in the dark i.e. isolated so that no one could decode it. BLACK IS A VERY IMP. COLOR.