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Why white things are white

Steve Mould, 12 min, 1M views, Nov 5, 2020

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The first 1000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/stevemould11201 Almost all white things are white because of scattering. You can do really cool things by playing with refractive index to dial up or down the amount of scattering, you can even make things disappear. It's how a Buddha Board works! Image credit - TiO2 crystals - Materialscientist (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TiO2crystals.JPG) You can buy my books here: https://stevemould.com/books You can support me on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/stevemould just like these amazing people: Joseph Galliera Nathan Williams Matthew Cocke Glenn Watson Mark Brouwer Joseph Rocca Joël van der Loo Doug Peterson Yuh Saito Rashid Al M Paul Warelis Will Ackerly Twitter: http://twitter.com/moulds Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevemouldscience/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stevemouldscience/ Buy nerdy maths things: http://mathsgear.co.uk