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"credo, quia absurdum: Corrupted from a passage in Tertullian, I believe it, because it is absurd."

"Why is water blue? --AxelBoldt

Because of the tail of an absorption at around 750 nm absorbs the red. The absorption is an overtone of the O-H stretching vibration.

Interestingly, heavy water (D2O) is colourless, because the absorption band is at a longer wavelength (~950 nm). -- DrBob"

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