CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY
visible radiation
vidljivo zračenjeHuman eye can only see electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths form 400 nm to 760 nm. This narrow part of electromagnetic spectrum is called visible radiation. Visible (white) light is a mixture of light of all kind of colours, it can be separated, with the help of a glass prism, into its component colours - visible light spectrum, and each colour corresponds to a certain area of wavelengths:
| Colour | Wavelength / nm |
|---|---|
| purple | 400 - 450 |
| blue | 450 - 500 |
| green | 500 - 570 |
| yellow | 570 - 590 |
| orange | 590 - 620 |
| red | 620 - 760 |
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