What Color Is A Mirror?

LEARN MORE and, in order of appearence:

Watch Molly dance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jljYA...

Javier: http://www.youtube.com/user/werevertu...

Loka: http://www.youtube.com/user/LeMondede...

Great web exhibit on the causes of color: http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofco...

"color" vs "colour": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American...

Study on mirror color: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?...

Bad Astronomy on Mirror-color: http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/1996/...

Great series of mirror tunnels: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedefi...

Origins of color terms: http://www.worldwidewords.org/article...

Origin of "black": http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?t...

xkcd's color survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color...

Tyndall Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall_...

More on scattering: http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~zawis...

A CRAZY bird that uses interference on its feathers to look awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS1tEn...

Peacocks also use interference: http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofco...

Fantastic Radio Lab about color terms: http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/s...

Straight Dope on the history of color terms: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/r...

Mirror GIF: http://gifninja.com/animatedgifs/1046...

my favorite color illusion: http://www.archimedes-lab.org/color_i...

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[RaJhon Ad]

Like if you have melanin in your eyeballs.

[djsterf]

2:45 There's a big difference in etymology between 'BLANK' and 'BLACK.'

The whole 'Green' spectral absorption of mirrors is due to the materials in the recipe. Most mirrors are produced with a touch of Iron as a glass lubricant, tinting it Green. However, there are alternatives like Starphire and more expensive Telescopic mirrors, which contain little to none of that hue. A mirror's image is tinted by its glass' tint...a blue-tinted mirror will have a blue "mirror tunnel."

[SATANICDRIFTER]

and in Maori white is "ma"

[SATANICDRIFTER]

Bad School system in Belize?

[SATANICDRIFTER]

Exactly what I thought!

[SATANICDRIFTER]

melanin for the win



[SATANICDRIFTER]

wow, bad puns.

[SATANICDRIFTER]

silver

[Nick Hyde]

Not switch with

[Nick Hyde]

Switch that eye color thing my eyes always have changed colour on me so whats up with that

[ricochet188]

I want that French lady...