What Color is Water?

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The water is in fact not colorless; even pure water is not colorless, but has a slight blue tint to it, best seen when looking through a long column of water. The blueness in water is not caused by the scattering of light, which is responsible for the sky being blue.

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white
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Clear
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Rainbow color, especially when it rains.
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Water is clear, the sky is just reflecting on it
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It’s only rainbow color when you spill gasoline in it
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As usual stupid childlike comments meant to bury my grown up scholarly like threads.

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depends on the light

or the surface holding it

if u dip a clear bottle into what appears to be blue ocean, it will look clear in the bottle. If you shine pink light into it, the water is now pink. or if you pour it into a green glass. The water is now green. Water is all colors and no colors at the same time

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Um actually water is negative orange 🤓
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ily bae but

n o

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Water, when it’s not water-colored, which is usually, is very very light burgundy and you may ask why is that. Well, as we know the perception of color on the retina is done by cones. These cones in order to live are fed by the bloodstream whose color tone the light picks up before traveling the neuronal pathways to be interpreted by the brain. And as everyone knows blood is burgundy- colored. Qed. This phenomenon has led to the common expression “seeing red”!