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If I am wearing a bright red shirt and I take into account light and pigments why would the shirt appear red to someone?

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The pigments in the shirt can be related to the pigments in photosynthesis.
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<br>If the visible portion of the light spectrum is divided into thirds, the predominant colors are red, yellow and blue. These three colors are considered the primary colors of the visible light spectrum. A pigment is a molecule that absorbs certain wavelengths and ...

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