So bronze is this metallic brown colour and the adjective metallic is used to describe something that is shiny so often the paint on cars has that sparkle, that shine in it.
It looks so polished and beautiful now when you see it, but what I love about it is that everything starts with sheets of paper and glue sticks and scissors and ribbon.
A study published in 1990 suggested that people tend to perceive glossy things as being wet, even when we're just looking at painted panels with no other context that would indicate the presence of water.
And lying on top of the ribs are a patch of dark, blackish-brown objects with little shiny patches on them and those are actually semi-digested fish scales.
It's not unusual to see ostrich's featured heavily in fashion because they have these wonderful large, lustrous feathers that aren't used for display on the birds.
Well, metals like sodium are shiny because they have a bunch of free-flowing electrons that can absorb and then retransmit light which we see as a reflection.