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Is the material itself blue, or is it structural color? I ask because I’m aware (as far as I believe) that hydrogen gas is colorless, and the solid hydrogens I
by MrFoof 4y ago
Is the material itself blue, or is it structural color?
I ask because I’m aware (as far as I believe) that hydrogen gas is colorless, and the solid hydrogens I’ve seen certainly aren’t blue.
Though structural color is a rabbit hole I’ve had to go down recently for an application (where the component materials have no color), so it wouldn’t surprise me that some materials at ridiculous levels of purity get interpreted as certain colors only because of the interference of light through the material.
- exmadscientist 4y agoI don't think structural color happens in (things that are exclusively) liquids? As far as I know it's the O-H bond, mediated by the other O-H bond being nearby, that's responsible for the color.