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> The black body spectrum of the sun peaks at green (which is why plants are green) Plants are green because they reflect green light, i.e. they do not absorb
by tesseract 18y ago
> The black body spectrum of the sun peaks at green (which is why plants are green)
Plants are green because they reflect green light, i.e. they do not absorb it and use it to facilitate photosynthesis. Chlorophylls tend to have absorption peaks in the red and blue, which are (in the grand scheme of the electromagnetic spectrum) near the sun's blackbody peak but do not coincide with it.
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