and black sugar paper does Not reflect light because ......thank you in advance
You call a surface shiny because it reflects light. Most metals are shiny because of perfectly symmetrical bonding in their lattice structures that bends and twists light around and bounces it off and on. Never heard of sugar paper but since you say black...it absorbs all the light and doesn't reflect anything back and so you can't see any colour and thus your see black.
Light is reflected by a shiny surface because the light isn't absorbed by that surface and is instead reflected. Black sugar paper doesn't reflect much light because it absorbs most of the light and turns it into heat. This is why black objects get hotter than white objects. Also, the reason why we see colors is because white light is made out of all the colors. We see a red object because that red objects material absorbs all the other colors in the rainbow spectrum other than red, and red is the only color reflected back to our eyes. The same is true for all different colored objects. Why objects absorb different colors depends on their chemical make up; different chemicals absorb different colors. We can learn much about an objects chemical make up just by observing it's color, (especially through spectroscopy - which shows us the color spectrum we see from the reflected light of an object through a type of prism. We can see specifically which colors are absorbed and reflected this way).
light is reflected from shiny surfaces because light is not absorbed. black sugar paper does not reflect light because it absorbs light. www.bbc .uk/schools/ks3bitesize... see link for extra
