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Subject: What determines the colour of copper

Date: Fri Feb 2 22:53:48 2001
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Area of science: Chemistry
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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?



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