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You guys are just confusing me now. Anything that's not out and out transparent/clear/whatever has SOME color.
You still haven't defined clear vs colorless adequately. What's needed is an example of a clear object that has color, or a colorless object that's not clear.
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*cracks knuckles*
All right, hold on to your hats, and please keep your hand inside the car until it has come to a complete stop.
A glass of water is clear and colourless. Clear means that it's not opaque: you can see right through it. Colourless means that it has no colour - that is, it doesn't absorb any visible wavelength, so it's not green or yellow or magenta or whatever.
A glass of Kool-Aid is clear, assuming you've mixed it all completely and don't have chunks of undissolved sugar swirling in it. You can see right through it and it isn't opaque. It is, however, coloured, depending on what flavour it is.
A block of ice is colourless, but you can get ice that isn't clear, depending on how it froze. If the ice cube is full of bubbles, you can't see through it.
A glass of milk is not clear, it's opaque. It's also coloured - white, in this case. Yes, white is a colour.
Clear? (Or colourless?)
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12-16-2006, 08:01 PM
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