What color light does iodine absorb?
The answer says yellow but I don't know how...
The answer says yellow but I don't know how...
The colour absorbed depends on whether the iodine is in a polar or a nonpolar medium.
The colour absorbed depends on whether the iodine is in a polar or a nonpolar medium.
What we see
Solid iodine is a deep purple colour.
Iodine vapour and solutions of iodine in nonpolar solvents are also purple.
Aqueous iodine solutions, however, have a yellow-orange colour, because of the formation of a charge transfer complex.
Colour theory (in brief)
When white light strikes an object, some light is absorbed, and some is reflected.
The colours that we see are those that are reflected, and the colours that we don’t see are absorbed by the material.
For example, carrots absorb blue and green light, so we see them as orange.
Iodine absorption
Iodine vapour has a broad absorption with
Since it absorbs mostly green light, the colour we see is a violet-purple.
Aqueous iodine has
Since it absorbs mostly blue light, the colour we see is orange-yellow.
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Iodine appears purple because it absorbs light in the violet spectrum.
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When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
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