camera0bug wrote:No need for me to consult the dictionary this time 'round.
I can hear the sighs of relief clear across the continents.
NO! Say it isn't so!
I can't go thru a challenge without an understanding of the technicality of terms!!!
so here . . .from WIKI!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White&oldid=228763620"Examples include classic "white" substances such as sugar, foam, pure sand or snow, cotton, clouds, and milk. Crystal boundaries and imperfections can also make otherwise transparent materials white, as in the milky quartz or the microcrystalline structure of a seashell. This is also true for artificial paints and pigments, where white results when finely divided transparent material of a high refractive index is suspended in a contrasting binder. Typically paints contain calcium carbonate and/or synthetic rutile with no other pigments if a white color is desired."