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Is rainbows part of the earth?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Rainbows aren't part of the earth in the way that rocks or even air are. Rainbows tend to form when there's sunshine after rain and a lot of tiny water droplets left in the air. What happens is that the water droplets slow down the sunlight that's moving through them, but different colors get slowed down different amounts, so they separate instead of being all mixed together like they usually are. We see these separate colors as a rainbow. When all the colors of light are mixed together, we see it as white light.

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