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A complex absorbs only orange light from white light. Using the usual colour wheel of complementary colours, the colour seen is

  1. Ared
  2. Bgreen
  3. Cblue
  4. Dyellow

Answer: C

The colour observed is the complement of the colour absorbed. The complement of orange on the colour wheel is blue.
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