Why can't we see air?

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Actually, the air is a mixture of gases composed of nitrogen and oxygen mainly and it is invisible because it sends very little color to our eyes and that's why it cannot reflect back to our eyes.
By the phenomenon of reflection, objects appear to be colored they reflect in our eyes.
That is why we can't see air.

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