Red and Yellow Makes Orange?
[caption id="attachment_9630" align="alignright" width="440"] Paints and pigments including red and yellow.[/caption] It seems simple enough: red and yellow makes orange... Color is a funny thing. If we combine opaque red paint and opaque yellow paint in the correct quantities, we get orange paint. Or do we? Consider this. If the red paint contains an opaque pigment responsible for its color, and if the yellow paint contains an opaque pigment responsible for its color, and the two are such that there is no chemical reaction between the pigments, we do not actually form orange, do we? It’s just a mixture of red and yellow. As Simple as Red and Yellow Makes Orange? In reality it is simply a larger batch of the two paints in the same container. So it must…