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Colors are a feature of the light that we humans perceive. They identify the wavelengths of the visible radiation contained in luminous rays. Wavelengths different from those associated to the colors are distinctive of the invisible radiation (eg. infrared or ultraviolet). The luminous waves, visible and invisible, are all electromagnetic in nature and their main properties are presented and discussed in this chapter.
“I have to understand the world, you see.”
Richard Feynman, scientist and Nobel laureate
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Bisi, O. (2015). Experiments with Light. In: Visible and Invisible. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09825-8_2
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