Do you know why?
2007-03-07 11:46:01 · 8 answers · asked by angels0999 1 in Environment
It won't attract heat; nothing "attracts" heat.
White will reflect more radiation (that's why it looks white: most of the light is being reflected from it.) Heat is also radiation, so more heat gets reflected from white than from darker colours, so white objects stay cooler than darker colours.
However, if you leave something white out in the sun, it will warm up. After all, it isn't reflecting all the radiation that strikes it. If it did, the white object would look like a mirror, which it doesn;t.
2007-03-07 11:58:57 · answer #1 · answered by Rando 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, it's not matter of attraction, but of reflection. Darker colors absorb more of heat because they tend to absorb rather than reflect. Darker colors do not reflect as many wavelengths as does white, which only absorbs a fraction of the heat/light spectrum.
2007-03-07 11:52:03 · answer #2 · answered by The Oldest Man In The World 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi there
Why don't you check it out yourself with a little experiment,take a black piece of paper and a white one too,stand in the sun and you will see the white paper will reflect much more light than the black one wich you will see is very vague,white(lighter colours) reflects more as black(darker colours) absorbs more......
C ya
2007-03-07 11:59:41 · answer #3 · answered by volley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black absorbs more suitable ordinary that white therefore why it truly is black. So a cold black issue in a warm room heats up faster than an same white issue. If even as both issues are warm they are moved to a cool room. The black issue will also cool down swifter than the white issue.
2016-12-05 09:33:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White does not absorb (not attract) much light. Absorbed light is changed into heat. White reflects light.
2007-03-07 11:49:39 · answer #5 · answered by ecolink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you look at the color spectrum chart, white is in the middle. neutral. there for its wavelength creates the least vibration and contains the least amount of matter. therefore it doesn't retain heat. its not exactly true that it doesn't attract heat, same as other colors. black dosn't "attract" it just retains it well.
2007-03-07 11:51:09 · answer #6 · answered by firemedic311 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
white, and other bright colors, reflect it better than absorb it.
2007-03-07 11:50:19 · answer #7 · answered by jdnmsedsacrasac1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope.
2007-03-07 11:49:02 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ ♫ lauren ♫ ♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋