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Geek Culture / What color is the metal silver?

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 23rd May 2012 05:39
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Silver is used to make extremely reflective mirrors, and these mirrors tend to reflect whatever hits them so it is quite hard to tell what color silver is. Does anyone know what color silver is? (along with other highly reflective metals)
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Posted: 23rd May 2012 05:46
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When I want to mimic silver then I use a grayish white color tipped towards the bluer colors. That's just me.

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Posted: 23rd May 2012 05:49
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Interesting. I think a piece of silver will appear gray because of its surface roughness. I have always thought mirrors were gray but then I realized one day that they weren't.
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Posted: 23rd May 2012 06:50
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Like most metals in the periodic table, silver is white but can take on a polish so it is reflective. Gold is yellowish AND shiny. A good thing to do if you're interested in this stuff is read about band theory or electronic band structure. Enjoy!

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Posted: 23rd May 2012 06:52
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http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/9.html

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Posted: 23rd May 2012 07:09
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Ill look at that link soon enough!!

So that means most metals are white?? Freakin' sweet.
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Posted: 23rd May 2012 07:15
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White or close to it

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Posted: 23rd May 2012 07:25
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I see!
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Posted: 23rd May 2012 21:38
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Things appear shiny because the direction light is emitted at is directly related to the direction it was incident at, whereas normally light is emitted roughly evenly in all directions. You could therefore get a good approximation of what it would look like if something wasn't shiny by taking the average colour over the whole surface.

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