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Old 12-16-2006, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability View Post
Clear means you can see stuff on the other side. Colorless means that it's colored white.
No, that's not it.

Clear = transparent, which is more or less what you said. For a chemist (what Sa'ar is, in case you missed it), it would mean "without observable flocculents, filaments, sediment or other particles," -- as pure water would be, for example.

Colorless = without color. Not blue, not green, not yellow or pink. Not white, either. Without coloring of any kind -- again, as pure water would be, but in a different way than "clear" describes.
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