Behavior of light

 

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Light that interacts with matter can be reflected, absorbed or transmitted through transparent materials. Any combination of these interactions can take place, but a particular substance is usually characterized by what it mostly does to light.

Light travels in a straight line, and the color of an object depends in which wavelengths of light the object reflects. Each of these flowers absorbs the colors of white light and reflects the color that you see.