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Screens create colors by combining red, green, and blue light. This topic is part of Optics within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 7 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.

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Which three colors are the additive primary colors of light?

Answer: Red, green, and blue

Bonus fact: Screens create colors by combining red, green, and blue light.

What color is produced by mixing red and green light in equal amounts?

Answer: Yellow

Bonus fact: In additive color mixing, red plus green light produces yellow.

What cells in the human retina are primarily responsible for color vision?

Answer: Cones

Bonus fact: Cone cells respond to different ranges of wavelengths and enable color vision.

Mahogany is especially valued for its rich reddish-brown what?

Answer: Color

Bonus fact: Its color and workability made it popular in fine woodworking.

Coral bleaching makes corals lose much of their what?

Answer: Color

Bonus fact: Bleached corals appear pale or white.

Color television added what to images that black-and-white television lacked?

Answer: Color

Bonus fact: Color broadcasting became widespread in the 1960s and 1970s.

"Equinox Flower" is notable in Ozu's career because it was his first film made in what format?

Answer: Color

Bonus fact: Ozu continued using color in several of his later films.

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