its difficult to answer and i dont think any one has ever consiedered it but if u can answer?

Question

then consider sulphur is yellow.It mean sulphurs atoms are yellow.It also mean that electrons protons neutrons and other subatomic particles are yellow which make its atom yellow which in turn make sulphur yellow.is it true?
if true then in case of a blue element all its sub atomic particles are blue.
how is this colour distribution applied on subatomic particles of other substances

Answer 1

is this a joke? ;-)

if it is not, then no, of course elementary particles do not have a color! Even if they did, you'd have a problem with chemical reactions, because electrons with different "colours" would get mixed up ;-)

Sulphur is yellow yes, but just to give one example, copper sulfate is blue.

anyway, the reason you see anything the colour you see it, is because the upper electron layers of the atoms / molecules absorb all the visible light BUT that colour, which gets reflected.

This helps?

Answer 2

Err... the logic is not there. How can you say sulphur is yellow when you use a red torch light and shine at it? It just a simple experiment...

We know light from Sun have 7 colors. That also explain how a rainbow works over the prism. As it shine to an object, it is depending on the characteristic of the object to adsorb how many colors and reflect how many colors out.

I do believe we cannot accurately define the color of any object. In short, sulphur may not be yellow color as it be, but only the fact is yellow when it is shine under the sun. The adsorbtion and reflection of the 7 light colors depending on how the atomic fused up within them. Whether they allow long wavelenght to penetrate through (adsorbtion) or reflected out (reflection) at the atomic level...

Answer 3

No, the atoms have no color. Protons, electron, nertrons have no color. It's the way the light hits the atom that produces color. say a yellow element, The light shined on it is of all colors the atom absorbs all colors except yellow.

Put another way, the light shined on the atom has a certain amount of energy in it. When the light hits the atom some of the energy is absorbed by the atom and the light that comes off has less energy, therefore different color. In this case yellow

Answer 4

Whatever u think is not correct. Sulphur is yellow and has a specific crystal structure. In any crystal there is a rules how the atoms are arranged and created their specific crystal. When light fall on this particular crystal it reflects according to the orientation of the atoms in their crystal and receives color to human eyes accordingly.
Never think that the elementary particle of any atoms are colored. The color of a element is defined as the orientation of the atom within it.

Answer 5

Not true. Sulfur is yellow because the outer electrons preferably absorb red and blue light. The inner electrons and the particles in the nucleus are not involved. Even the outer electrons have no color of their own -- it is simply a matter of the available energy levels as to which colors are absorbed and which not.

Answer 6

White light is made up of many wavelengths of light. Sulfur appears yellow because the molecules of sulfur absorb the other wave lengths of light and reflect the yellow wave length back. When sulfur is mixed with other material, it changes the way it absorbs light. It is the crystalline structure that give it the properties, not the physical color of the individual atoms or molecules.

Answer 7

I'm glad to see critical thinking, but you've got it all wrong.

The color of an object is a result of the photos it emits or reflects. The photos strike the retinas in our eyes and our brains think, "Hey, it's yellow!"

Let's take sulfur from your example:
It doesn't emit photons like the sun, but it reflects them. As photos strike the electrons of sulfur, they do it in a very specific (to sulfur) way. Only certain photos can reaction with a giving sub atomic configuration (and that's why things seem to be different colors).

If you would like to know more about colors, find out more about the electromagnetic spectrum

Suggested reading:
Astronomy and conceptual physics

Answer 8

Actually electron,protons or neutrons are not yellow in colour.Sulphur looks yellow as it scatters the yellow colour of light.It is a phenomenon for which we see different colours.Those particles absorb all the colour of the light look black.

Answer 9

it is not correct.
the colour of the atom or substance is due to the frequency of light it can reflect or emit.
it depence on the energy level of the electrons orbit of the particular atom of the substance.
so, the colour of the atom is not due to the colour of the subatomic particles.

Answer 10

colour is not dependent on the colours of the neutron or protons. it is the combination of all the elements which gives the final colour. U can mix two or three colours and see what comes out. Every element is in natural condition reacts with atmosphere.