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| | WHY IS WATER BLUE |
 | | However, the changes are small enough that the color of water should not vary significantly with temperature between 0 and 50º C. e are not the first to call attention to the vibrational origin of water's blue color. |
 | | Because the absorption which gives water its color is in the red end of the visible spectrum, one sees blue, the complementary color of red, when observing light that has passed through several meters of water. |
 | | Their colors may originate from resonant interactions between photons and matter such as absorption, emission, and selective reflection or from non-resonant processes such as Rayleigh scattering, interference, diffraction, or refraction, but in each case, the photons interact primarily or exclusively with electrons. |
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