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color
Category: Science > Social Sciences Asked by: angel_ag-ga List Price: $5.00 |
Posted:
30 May 2005 09:09 PDT
Expires: 29 Jun 2005 09:09 PDT Question ID: 527289 |
In the color system if I mixed the color of silver and the color of gold what color would I get as a result ?I need a scientific explanation . Can I know the wavelength of them. |
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Re: color
From: andrewxmp-ga on 30 May 2005 14:42 PDT |
I'm not really sure myself, but check this out, i think it will be very helpful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color#Color_perception |
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Re: color
From: myoarin-ga on 30 May 2005 15:59 PDT |
Hi Angel, I wasn't clear from your question if you are talking about mixing gold and silver or if you mean mixing gold and silver colors somehow: paints crayons, whatever. Since you ask for a scientific explanation, I expect you mean the former. Mixing gold and other metals accounts for the different shades of gold, "red" or "pink" gold with copper, paler shades of gold, with white metals: nickel, silver, palladium. http://www.24carat.co.uk/whatiswhitegold.html This was the best site I found (but there could be better ones) that explains the subject. Somewhere on it, it mentions the fact that nickel (I believe it was) has a stronger influence on the refraction of light. I hope this is of some help. Myoarin |
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Re: color
From: waukon-ga on 31 May 2005 00:21 PDT |
The alloy of gold and silver is called 'electrum'. Appararently, this occurs in nature. |
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Re: color
From: quantumdot-ga on 09 Jun 2005 06:27 PDT |
Mixing gold and silver paint will probably yeild different color results than mixing gold or silver metal. The color and reflectivity of gold and silver have to do with the properties of their conduction band electrons. The forces on the electrons are dependant on atomic mass, number, etc...Silver is (generally) a broad band reflector. All wavelengths are reflected in equal proportion. Gold more effciently reflects colors of longer, redder, wavelengths, and thefore appears yellow. The best way to measure these colors would be with a spectrometer coupled to a reflectance probe. e.g. http://www.oceanoptics.com/products/reflectionprobes.asp A better method would be to use an integrating sphere, which is what is often used for LED and pigment color measurements. e.g. http://www.labsphere.com/ Following up on myoarin's link..... http://www.24carat.co.uk/whatisgreengold.html Green gold alloys are made by leaving the copper out of the alloy mixture, and just having gold and silver. In most cases, it is more of a greenish yellow, rather than what most people would describe as green. Eighteen carat green gold would therefore contain:- Gold 75%; Silver 25% Although, to me it looks more like pale gold. I'd suggest going to a jewlwer and asking them to compare some samples. |
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