article_snippet: The colours we see in paints and fabrics, for example, occur when white broad spectrum light strikes
article_snippet: The colours we see in paints and fabrics surfaces.
article_snippet: The unique chemical composition of each surface then absorbs various bands, or wavelengths of light.
article_snippet: Bands that aren’t absorbed are reflected back, with shorter wavelengths giving objects a blue hue and longer wavelengths appearing redder, with a rainbow of possible combinations in between.