What Color is Liquid Carbon at the Atomic Level?

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Liquid carbon is likely to appear silver-colored at the atomic level, resembling most metals, unless the pressure is too low, which would make it an insulator. The discussion highlights that liquid carbon may appear white due to heat or a bright gray when colorless. A referenced paper discusses the phase transitions of carbon between solid, liquid, and gas states. However, the paper does not provide a specific spectrum for liquid carbon. Overall, the consensus is that under typical conditions, liquid carbon exhibits metallic properties and a silver hue.
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What color of liquid carbon
 
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Probably white from the heat.
 
is it very bright gray colorless color. ...
 
Here is a paper on the phase transitions solid-liquid-gas for carbon.

Liquid carbon is metallic unless the pressure is too low - then it is an insulator.

The metallic form should appear like most metals: silver colored. They don't provide a spectrum in the paper.

And some further discussion here: http://pchemblog.umwblogs.org/2011/10/30/phase-diagram/
 

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