Does a mirror have a colour?

Question

Does a mirror have a colour?

Answer 1

transparent or silver

Answer 2

uh, its coated in mercury. So it reflects the color which it sees. Example: if you hold a red dress up to it, you'll see the reflection of the red dress, which also includes the color of the dress. lol, mirrors arent paranormal tho so this is the wrong section to put this question in :P

Answer 3

mercury coated. so the colour is silver

Answer 4

Ummmm... it's clear, or transparent.

Hope this helps!!!

-Paranormal Addict :D

Answer 5

If the pane of glass on the outside surface of the mirror is tinted, then it could be said the mirror has a color. But a perfect mirror reflects the entire range of visible light without filtering any wavelengths, so with no tinting to absorb extraneous wavelengths, mirrors will take any wavelength of light and bounce it back off their surface in an ordered fashion to produce an exact reflection of the light source hitting the mirror. So to the eye, a mirror has no color apart from the reflection that you are seeing. In a physical sense, a mirror reflects back all the incident light that hits it, just as a theoretically pure white surface would do. The difference is that a mirror reflects back with an angle of relection = angle of incidence, while a diffuse white surface reflects the light back in a very scattered way, hence the image is lost. Yet a physicist might say that the perfect mirror is "white" since it reflects all wavelengths back like a white surface will. (Also, there is nothing paranormal about mirrors)

Answer 6

no it does not it just reflects

Answer 7

Darkdoggy....Next time you have a question like this..put it in the Alternative Section on here. You can put just about anything in there...esp. if you don't know where else to put it.

I bet when mirrors were first made...people thought they were "paranormal"....not normal! Can you imagine never having seen your reflection before ..except in water etc...and then seeing it in a mirror? Even today..there might be tribes somewhere that have never seen their own reflection in a mirror. I wonder if it would scare them to see themselves..or if they'd even realize it was them...or if they'd try to get "inside" the mirror. So many things WE take for granted!!

PS..I wonder what caused you to think of this question! lol

Answer 8

No, does not have a color. its transparent

Answer 9

Mirror is transparent.

Answer 10

A mirrored surface doesn't have colour - it only reflects that of it's surroundings. However the silvering on mirrors is a coating on glass, and as such is quite fragile and will oxidise if exposed to air. To overcome this, they are usually made bu applying the silvering, then painting to seal it. The mirror is then used behind the glass.

You are then looking at two thicknesses of glass when you see the reflection.

By holding one mirror up to reflect another, you are causing the light to travel through many thicknesses of glass each time the image is reflected in a "time tunnel effect"

Thus your image will appear to fade into green or blue - depending on the colour of the glass used.