Why Is Salt White? | Earth Science

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Why Is Salt White? | Earth Science

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Why does salt look white. This clip from In Search of Science Explains.
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@UtsukShah9 6 жыл бұрын

Because salt is transparent and light goes through continuous and numerous reflections and refractions between the crystals before finally reaching the eye. You can watch the next video in your subscription feed now

@NintenloupWolfFR 6 жыл бұрын

Can silence make you crazy, yea, I think I won't watch the next video X)

@andrewmurphy5310 6 жыл бұрын

Refractions rather than reflections. I believe.

@UtsukShah9 6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Murphy yes. Both.

@FransM89 6 жыл бұрын

3:50 - 3:54

@knosci5495 6 жыл бұрын

Wait up.. So the salt cubes don't act a prism splitting the white light into colors - bouncing it out as rainbows. How cool would that look, walking on rainbows - literally. Damn it.

@alexeecs 2 жыл бұрын

If you made one prism of salt it probably would do that, but with a thousand tiny prisms together, all the rainbows get mixed back together into white.

@TheRealBulluk 6 жыл бұрын

we all know what we had saw on the thumbnail

@Supsup516 6 жыл бұрын

same bruv

@impalabeeper 6 жыл бұрын

*have seen

@reddevil258 2 ай бұрын

what did i miss.......

@crackedemerald4930 6 жыл бұрын

Legend say that if you smell the salt... It smells like burnt tyres and hopes to set a new record...

@StickMaster500 6 жыл бұрын

Just a little Sodium Chloride

@amisfitpuivk 6 жыл бұрын

You could say the same for anything clear. If you shatter glass into tiny bits, it would look white like salt. Ice cubes, snow, etc. It doesn't look clear because it's not smooth at our human macro scale. Salt as a smooth surface would probably look no different than glass

@muazqamar 6 жыл бұрын

God she's beautiful

@thefifthhour45 6 жыл бұрын

“Stay on designated roads”

@agentmothman5343 6 жыл бұрын

The Fifth Hour was that an American Werewolf in London reference?

@IncognitoPotat0 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for solving my specific question :)

@arescet 6 жыл бұрын

I get the part where it's see through, but how are the edges of those crystals white? Not completely transparent there right?

@ziggy8253 6 жыл бұрын

Well, that video ended abruptly.

@handendaer 6 жыл бұрын

bench her, get james

@MADSTEVE_ 6 жыл бұрын

what microphone did you use

@Armiteus 6 жыл бұрын

Boy I feel bad for her, having to sit and do this video in Death Valley. Must be roasting on all that salt

@PeterPete 6 жыл бұрын

Started watching, all I thought of was.................come on just tell us why Is Salt White? Didn't come here for a story!!

@pax4370 5 жыл бұрын

Wow out from tge laboratory! Wondering in tge nature. Life is so good 😊😊

@amojak 6 жыл бұрын

it's ok to be white.. salt

@waikelehawaii4409 6 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm, she said that salt looks white because the orange color is refracted by the crystals of salt to the point where it looks white? I'm no scientist but I don't think she is entirely correct. She is correct in saying that salt looks white because light is reflected back to our eye, but it is not the reflected light off the orange background but the original white light from the sun getting reflected off the rough edges of the salt - before it even has a chance to reach the orange background - that makes salt look white. Just my $0.02

@Jute511 5 жыл бұрын

You're right, you're not a scientist. She, however, is a physicist.

@azzurri1402 6 жыл бұрын

not expecting big finish here, but this finish just so poor, got me transfixed

@thoriso1000 6 жыл бұрын

Mind blown

@reytheon486 6 жыл бұрын

😲 so long a video to explain this. Come to the point already.

@PeterPete 6 жыл бұрын

a flat earther in the making?

@PulledPurk 6 жыл бұрын

That was table salt

@SaturnCanuck 6 жыл бұрын

OMG, they are not completely transparent. NOTHING is

@mhilmyfauzi4523 6 жыл бұрын

Whoa

@clxwncrxwn 6 жыл бұрын

Because it is the SUPERIOR SALT.

@maelgugi 6 жыл бұрын

clxwncrxwn Salt is a social construct

@andrewphillips8341 6 жыл бұрын

OMG Lay off the hyper drama

@maelgugi 6 жыл бұрын

Because it's racist, that's why

@NintenloupWolfFR 6 жыл бұрын

Of course !!!

@agentmothman5343 6 жыл бұрын

Kyselves~😘

@Karasaph 6 жыл бұрын

maelgugi it's a joke now, but when we come back to this a few years later it won't be a joke anymore

@crocshock911 6 жыл бұрын

They spend the entire video beating around the bush, then finally at the very end tell you the answer. It's just another corporate television show trying to grab audience attention for as long as possible with pointless material so that they make more money. Thumbs down.