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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The answer is no, but if you take an imaginative view of color charge in quarks then yes!

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Because color is photons in a narrow range of wavelengths/energies visible to the human eye. Atoms have electrons that can emit and absorb photons under certain circumstances, but don't have any intrinsic color themselves.

Color charge is a property of quarks thats trinary in nature, and is usually described in terms of red, green, and blue, since color is a useful analogy to how it functions. Despite the name, colored light and color charge are not actually related outside of the analogy.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

So atoms don’t have color because some photons have wavelengths outside of the visible range? That’s irrelevant and in no way justifies the claim

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