XPost: alt.usage.english, sci.physics   
   From: frankperiodlogullo@comcast.net   
      
   On 8/9/2011 11:28 AM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:   
   >> Back in the days when I wore a suit every day, it was disconcerting to   
   >> notice - during the day - that I had on one black sock and one blue   
   >> sock. In the morning, taking the socks from the drawer, they both   
   >> looked black to me.   
   >   
   > Did you see them under two different kinds of lighting?   
      
   Phenomenon is called metamerism:   
      
   > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_%28color%29   
      
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