What wavelengths of the light spectrum are absorbed by red pigment?
1 Answer
Feb 22, 2016
Short answer: all wavelengths, except red.
Explanation:
Longer answer: The word 'red' encompasses a lot of colours, from 'almost orange' to 'scarlet' to 'almost purple'.
Usually we call any light with a wavelength of more than about 650 nm 'red', which means that a red pigment would absorb anything below that.