whether BLACK is a colour or not ?If yes then why?

Question

A body seems to look black when it absorbs all the wavelengths reflacts none.So why it is a colour.How a colour is possible witout wavelength.

Answer 1

absolute (pitch) black can never be attained because it is the absense of color, but the black that we call a "color" is not pitch black at all, it is a manmade color that comes close to pitch black. In Munsell notation, on a scale of 0-10....picth black is written as Neutral 0/ where as the color black that we know is actually about Neutral 2/.. (absolute white being the highest neutral color N 10/)...it comes close to pitch black, but it is not pitch black and therefore is a "color".

I hope that makes sense to you. I am an art major and took a class on Color Theory. If you have any questions, please refer to my source listed below it tells you absolutely everything you need to know about color and categorizing color:

Answer 2

We are not going to relearn colours as adults. We all know what our eyes see when we look at people. The darkest of "black" people do look like black until you see their hair (which is black) and notice that there is a difference between their hair colour and the colour of their skin. People are not made of a single coloured plastic and therefore cannot have one single colour on their skin. Even plants that are green have darker minute patches. Different coloured people always have a colour on their skin that is the predominant one but they have other colours too. Even a chocolate bar is not entirely brown in colour. So yes, there are very dark blacks that could look black at first sight and then there are blacks (and even Africans) that are yellowish brown in colour. In between those two is the whole range of varying shades of brown that black people exhibit. I'm very sure about what I'm talking about 'coz I've seen it with my own eyes.

Answer 3

Color is only perceived under certain conditions, the same as lack of color. The "color" Black can, in some cases, be the lack of color and in others, the combined effect of all colors. An example occurred a few days ago. On 06 Oct. we had the "Harvest moon". If one had noticed, under the light of that moon, a Red rose would have been "seen" as being Black while it's leaves would have been seen as quite a bright Green. This is because our eyes contain both rods and cones. The rods, however, are color blind. We can only "see" color from the stimulation of the cones. In the light of that Harvest moon, there was not enough "light" to excite our cones to see Red and yet plenty for the rods (and some cones). This is also part of the reason that the 2nd. full moon in any given month is referred to as a "Blue moon". The Blue/Green end of the color spectrum (under such light as a strong full moon) can cause things to appear as blue that aren't and cause the Red portion to seem to be Black.

Answer 4

Black does not certify as colour as it actually absence of light. A black body is any body which absorbs all the light energy falling on it in entierity. A coloured body is one which reflects off some part or the light spectrum

Answer 5

first know one thing. when u c colour. its just bcoz that body doesnt absorbed that colour.
when we c colour its a wavelength which not absorbed by body. it reflect that wavelength. so our eye catch that wavelength and we are able to c colour.
for example if u c red color. that body reflect red color wavelength.
so when the body absorbed all wavelength it become black to visible.
black and white are not color they just show present of darkness and light.

Answer 6

Technically speaking Black is the absence of any color, so if a body has no color it will absorb all the colors presence in the light as a result no color will reach our eyes after reflecting from the body hence we see a black color

Answer 7

when a body absorbs all the electromagnetic radiations in visible range and doesnot reflect any colour it appears black, that means our eyes are not sensing any colour.In other words black body is invisible to us.but we can see black thing or body because its sorrounding is not black and therefore we can differentiate it from other things. so ofcourse scientifically speaking black is not a colour yet if we go by general meaning of colour,it is visual perception which enables one to differentiate objects and thats why black, definitely, is a colour.

Answer 8

I've never heard "black" as a colour. It's the absence of colour. Just the same as "white" is not a colour, it's all colours.

Answer 9

yes black is a color. bec black is obtained from mixing all colors.........so u get black. it shows black because it absorbs all the reflection properties of all colors.
white is devoid of any color so it reflects light totally, and thats why u get the rainbow that has colors of different wavelengths.

Answer 10

No, because in the space there is no colour (except stars which have their own light) and we are able to see black background.