Subject: What determines the colour of copper
Date: Fri Feb 2 22:53:48 2001
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The colour of gold is a relativistic effect due to outer shell orbits
achieving appreciable percentage of light speed. But copper is nowhere
near as heavy an atom, is the colour due to the same effect?
How can we get so many different colors of copper-containing compounds;
what properties allow them to reflect different wavelengths of light?
Re: What determines the colour of copper
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