{"id":12045,"date":"2018-01-19T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:44:51","slug":"what-color-is-a-mirror","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/what-color-is-a-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"What Color Is A Mirror?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mirror, from your bathroom to the side of your car, they\u2019re everywhere and do one very simple job; reflect.\n

Whether that\u2019s reflection for pure vanity, to make sure you\u2019ve gotten every bit of that sugary doughnut off your face, or to see that idiot racing up the side of you as you\u2019re trying to change lanes on the highway, they\u2019re a lifesaver and yet they\u2019re so simple.\n

Today we\u2019re going to answer a question that you\u2019ve probably never considered but once you hear it you won\u2019t stop until you\u2019ve read this article…\n

What color is a mirror?\n

\"What\n

The mirror you have stuck to the front of that wardrobe is actually nothing more than a Soda-lime silica glass substrate with a silver backing.\n

To put it in layman’s terms, a silvery sheet of soda-lime glass.\n

This soda-lime mixture is actually what gives it its true color, which is actually a shade of green.\n

Your silvery wonder is green, a faint green I grant you, but green nonetheless.\n

How do we know this?\n

\"How\n

In Grenada, Spain way back in 2004, 2 researchers; Raymond L. Lee, Jr. and Javier Hern\u00e1ndez-Andr\u00e9s conducted an experiment in one of the Science Museums most popular attractions; the mirror tunnels.\n

The mirror tunnels is a contraption that\u2019s contains 2 mirrors facing each other with 2 eye holes cut out for the intrigued visitor to peer into.\n

The researchers found that when the reflection of the mirrors are bounced back and forth over 50 times, the green wavelength becomes the predominant wavelength we can see.\n

In turn we can start to see the greenish truth beneath and for all us science nerds the green wavelength is 552-nanometers or more vaguely anywhere between 495 and 570 nanometers.\n

Why do we see the mirror as purely reflective of what surrounds it?\n

\"Why\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure I\u2019ve heard a mirror is actually white?\u201d Well this is where the fun bit comes in, the science behind the reflections is that white does indeed make some sense as white does reflect all light, and in turn black absorbs all light.\n

However, when it comes to white you\u2019re obviously wondering why that mug on your desk or the shirt on your back doesn\u2019t reflect the tapestry of colors around you?\n

Simple, white reflects all colors in all different directions, in a process known as a Diffuse Reflection, whereas mirrors reflect colors straight back in the direction its facing as a concentrated source, which is known as a Specular Reflection.\n

This allows us to see the object as it is before the reflection.\n

For example, if you hold up a blue square with a letter “B” on it in front of a white background it won\u2019t reflect anything visible. But if you hold that very same blue square in front of a mirror you\u2019ll see nothing less than the exact square with the letter “B” in reverse being reflected back.\n

In Conclusion\n

So there we have it, a question you didn\u2019t even know you wanted to ask has finally been answered, all those long drawn minutes being unable to concentrate are finally banished.\n

The humble mirror is nothing more than a greenish block of soda-lime with a shiny back.\n

One thing is true though, I really want to go to Grenada and see this mirror tunnel for myself\u2026\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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