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Why is the colour of water always blue. Why not any other colour?

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Water is actually colourless. Water reflects a part of light falling on it. The entire sky appears blue due to Rayleigh scattering phenomena. Any large body of water such as an ocean reflects this apparent colour of the sky and hence appears blue.

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