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Why Blue Is One of The Brightest Colours We Find in Nature – ScienceAlert

From bird feathers to fruit skins, the natural world has two main ways of displaying colour: through pigment substances that provide selective colour absorption, or through structural colour – the use of microscopic structures to control light refl

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From bird feathers to fruit skins, the natural world has two main ways of displaying colour: through pigment substances that provide selective colour absorption, or through structural colour the use of microscopic structures to control light reflection.
Now scientists have devised a computer model that explains why the brightest matte structural colours in nature are almost always blue and green: because those are the limits of structural colour within the visible spectrum of light.
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