Why do copper compounds possess two different colors in the same +2 state?

Subject: Why do copper compounds possess two different colors in the same +2 state?

Date: Sat Jun 24 05:41:09 2000
Posted by Teo Yong Siah
Grade level: No grade entered. School: Commonwealth Secondary School
City: Singapore State/Province: No state entered. Country: Singapore
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 961839669.Ch

Message:


Pardon me for I am not searching for explanation regarding why they are of 
different colors in physics terms, but purely in conceptual chemistry.

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