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by tristramb 833 days ago
The yellow colour of gold is one of the best known relativistic effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry
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B1FF_PSUVM 833 days ago
A good read, thank you.

The "Spectral reflectance curves for aluminum (Al), silver (Ag), and gold (Au) metal mirrors" graph is neat - hmmm, silver has a 0% notch at ~320 nm (near UV) ...

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