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-----Original Message-----
From: William Beaty
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:54 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: The blueness of water
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Larry Woolf wrote:
A sufficiently high concentration of colored particles or plant matterabsorber -
suspended in water will certainly give water the color of the particles or
plants.
But typical bodies of water are blue because water is a selective
Last time this debate appeared on phys-L, I said what I'll say now: the
swimming-pool reactor at Cornell looked very odd, it did not look the
color of swimming-pool water. The walls of the tank were not painted
blue, and there were underwater floodlights. The water looked like a
block of colorless glass. It was only blue near the bottom (I vaugely
remember that it was 40ft deep, but I could be wrong.)