What elements of an object determine the color that will be reflected from it?

I understand that when light hits an object it absorbs all color, the color that the object does not obsorb gets reflected.. For instance a red apple absorbs all the color in the spectrum except red.. That is why we see the color red in the apple, however what element determines what will not be obsorbed by any particular object?What elements of an object determine the color that will be reflected from it?
it all depends upon the intermolecular structure of that material. wat happens is that when light is directed on any object the electrons within the material get excited and try to leave their orbit but they are unable to do so and hence fall back to their holes and release the absorbed energy in the form of light. thats y gold has its goldish colour and silver has its own. now this colour is visible to us and out of seven colour in the light only that colour is reflected that is released by that material during the process of electron holes recombinationWhat elements of an object determine the color that will be reflected from it?
So does that mean that a peacock feather has different intermolecular material inside it? What is this material that makes lets say 1 peice of the feather look blue and the other look green? is there a name of this material? or is it just a hypothosis? Report Abuse

the chemicals inside it, Plants have chloraplasts, thus reflect green