what color is water?

Answer 1

it is clear

Answer 2

Water has an intrinsic color, and this color has a unique origin. This intrinsic color is easy to see, as can been seen in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas and in Colorado mountain lakes. Pure water and ice have a pale blue color, best seen at tropical white-sand beaches and in ice caves in glaciers (green colors are usually derived from algae). It is neither due to light scattering (like the sky), nor dissolved impurities (e.g., Cu2+). Because the absorption which gives water its color is in the red end of the visible spectrum, one sees blue, the complementary color of orange, when observing light that has passed through several meters of water. This color of water can also be seen in snow and ice as an intense blue color scattered back from deep holes in fresh snow.

Answer 3

That depends on turbidity. Turbidity is the clarity of the water. Depending on the amount of saline, minerals, what type of minerals, climate, temp, etc. All of these factors combine to effect the clarity of water which in turn interpets it's colour. Down in the southern Atlantic for example the water has a bluish hue, the further north you sail, that hue turns green.

Answer 4

Water, like air, is clear. But really deep water looks blue for the same reason the sky (really deep air) looks blue.

When light passes through either of these clear materials, it gets refracted and the wavelength of light reflected back is the shortest wavelength, blue.

Answer 5

water is clear. we only think of water as blue because when you are outside, the reflection of the sky makes the water appear to be blue. If you think about it, if water was anything other than clear, after you came out of a pool or shower, you would have blue liquid on your body, but it is clear.

Answer 6

water takes color of surrounding

Answer 7

Water is actually clear

Answer 8

Green if there is a lot of phytoplankton, blue if there isn't much life, red or pink for neurotoxic algae blooms, brown for tannins from leaves and wood, and clear by itself. Oh, and black at night, except when the moon is up and its silver.

Answer 9

It hasn't got color,it's like a mirror
example:the sea is blue because it reflects the sky which is blue

Answer 10

It's clear. Just like my school colors. Really, I wasn't naked I was on the football team...

Answer 11

clear water