• Question: What makes gingers hair ginger?

    Asked by anon-201460 to Meirin on 6 Mar 2019.
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      Meirin Oan Evans answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      Any object that appears orange to us absorbs all other colours of the rainbow, apart from orange. When light (usually white light, a mixture of all the colours of the rainbow) falls onto such an object, colours other than orange are absorbed. Orange isn’t absorbed. You can think of it as orange being reflected. That’s why orange objects appear orange!
      (By the way, I wish my hair appeared more ginger).
      Are you a bit ginger too?

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