Chemical Principles
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ISBN: 9781305581982
Author: Steven S. Zumdahl, Donald J. DeCoste
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 12, Problem 24E
Human color vision is “produced” by the nervous systembased on how three different cone receptors interactwith photons of light in the eye. These three differenttypes of cones interact with photons of different frequencylight, as indicated in the following table:
What wavelength ranges (and corresponding colors) dothe three types of cones detect?
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