What Color is Liquid Carbon at the Atomic Level?

taregg · Apr 6, 2014

What color of liquid carbon

guysensei1 · Apr 6, 2014

Probably white from the heat.

taregg · Apr 6, 2014

is it very bright gray colorless color. ...

UltrafastPED · Apr 6, 2014

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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