is black a color or not?

Answer 1

Your question would be more relevent if u would have asked about white, which is a mix of all colours

Answer 2

You may not realize it, but this is actually two different questions! But I am feeling generous today.

Black PIGMENTS (paints or dyes) reflect little light. Each pigment absorbs some colors and reflects others. We see the ones they reflect and say "This is green", rather than saying "This has accepted every color BUT green, which it rejects."

So black pigments are in a sense a mix of all pigments. They absorb all colors and reflect none (theoretically), so that all we can see is dark. Just like the inside of a cave, when you turn the
lights out.

Now, as I mentioned above, we see the light (colors) reflected, not the ones absorbed.

So, a source of white light contains all the colors. We can split them up by using a prism, and then we see all the colors.

When we look through a colored FILTER, we only see the light that is allowed to pass through, and not the light that is absorbed. When we look through red or green or yellow transparent plastic, we see everything tinted those colors.

What happens if we put layer on layer of different colored plastic light filters? One blocks out everything but red, another blocks out everything but blue, another blocks out everything but green, etc. Pretty soon, there is no light left to come through! Everything has been blocked.

This is the same as turning the light out in the cave. When hno light reaches our eyes, we see nothing. We call it darkness. When too little light is reflected from an object for us to recognize the color, we call it black. I hope this clears up what you wanted to understand.

Answer 3

no, and the way you know this is because you don't see black in a rainbow, nor can you create black by mixing the colors in the rainbow. All the colors of light combined results in white. The evidence of this is again the rainbow. A prism breaks white light into its constituent parts, all the colors of the rainbow.

Answer 4

anything you can define as a color is a color. Black is a color called black same as blue, green , yellow and so forth

Answer 5

As the light can be seen both as a wave and as photons, they define two scales. Wave defines by frequency and photons define intensity. They both interract. Frequency defines color (red, blue, green, yellow, pink) and intensity defines luminiosity (white, black, gray, dark red, light blue etc). So, it is just a matter of concept. You can tell that black is a color, though it means the absence of photons.

Answer 6

no black is not a color .to which we say the black color actually that is dark brown color no black color is discover yet now.

Answer 7

Black is a not a colour . It is absence of all colours . abscence of light which is made of colours . light alone helps to see everything by its reflection .when an object on which light falls absorbs all the colours and reflect some one clour thee object appears to be of that colour . If theobject absorbes all the seven colours of which the light is composed of , it appears black.
for out convenience we call it a colour . In darkness notheing is visible . so colours ar necessary for visibility of thngs by the reflection.of colours buy objects . Black is not a colour as it is not seen by reflection of light but by the reflection of light by the surrounding objects . it is seen by contrast .against the reflection of light in its background .

Answer 8

scientifically defined black is the absence of color. whereas, white is the presence of all colors. white when passed through a prism gives us all the colors of the rainbow. ROYGBIV.

Answer 9

No not at all black isnt a colour ... because black objects obsorbs all the colours that falls on it and does not reflect back any colours back to us thus it is interprited as black by us...

Answer 10

black is a shade ;You add the shade to color to give differ tones of that color. i hope that helped