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Edit: So let's make a comparison with sound, which is also waves, but not radiation. Every note of music corresponds to a pure sine wave. Just as every color hue corresponds to a pure electromagnetic wave. Except the purple and magentas, who do not occur like this.

Then you can say that most colors we see are mixed and reflected, which is true, just as most notes are not pure sine waves.



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