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11. 11 2010 (06:10)

Optoelectronics engineers have discovered how to make gold of any colour by carving tiny shapes onto its surface

When it comes to metal, you can have any colour as long as its silver. That's because the sea of electrons within most metals absorbs and emits light over the entire optical range. Rather than silver, metals are actually colourless.