Sunlight, made up of a mixture of all colors, scatters when it passes between materials, each with a different refractive index, in this case water and air. The water in the river only meets the air at one surface, but the droplets in the air/water mixture contains millions of surfaces. This...
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The ocean looks blue because red, orange and yellow (long wavelength light) are absorbed more strongly by water than is blue (short wavelength light). So when white light from the sun enters the ocean, it is mostly the blue that gets returned. Same reason the sky is blue.
In other...
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The ocean looks blue because red, orange and yellow (long wavelength light) are absorbed more strongly by water than is blue (short wavelength light). So when white light from the sun enters the ocean, it is mostly the blue that gets returned. Same reason the sky is blue.
In other...
The ocean looks blue because red, orange and yellow (long wavelength light) are absorbed more strongly by water than blue colour hence the ocean looks blue (short wavelength light)
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