Re: The blueness of water

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

Probably -- a bit difficult to obtain meter sized optical glass  --

one could check out fused quartz tubing or cane tho.


bc

Brian Whatcott wrote:

> See the green cast due to remaining iron imprities?
>
> Brian
>
> At 23:03 4/28/02 -0700, you wrote:
> > Apropos -- of intrinsic color by absorption.
> >
> > Look through a sheet of glass through the longest dimension.
> >
> > bc
> >
> >
> > Larry Woolf wrote:
> >
> > > At 12:13 AM -0700 4/28/2002, William Beaty wrote:
> > > > Heh.  What's your evidence that the mineral impurities in ocean water are
> > > > colorless?  The water is full of dissolved salts.  Just to clarify, we're
> > > > arguing whether their color effects as viewed through a few meters of

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