(July 18, 2013 at 4:03 am)Consilius Wrote: Can you get salt by pouring sodium and chlorine into a glass?
Actually, yeah. Except, you can't really "pour" either a gas or a solid - but if you put a piece of sodium in a glass full of chlorine, you will get salt. And destroy the glass in the process.
(July 18, 2013 at 4:03 am)Consilius Wrote: And no, I refuse your invitation to try anything again. I'm here explaining to you how water gets its coloration. Notice how glasses of water don't turn blue. Like I said, the whole retains the attributes of the parts if all parts share them. When the amount of water becomes large enough, the light acting upon it causes it to appear blue. The blueness is just an illusion produced by the effects of the light. You cannot say that the water is actually colored like an apple.
Your explanations are pointless. I know why water appears blue - and calling it an illusion is incorrect by the way.
The simple truth is, all parts of the water share the property of colorlessness and the whole does not. You can keep repeating ad nauseum why it appears blue, but that won't change the simple fact that the whole does not share the attributes of all its parts. And you can't point to light as the cause of color change because light remains the same in both cases.