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from my experence i think it is water because it only happens after rain and during sunny days and you put your house to mist you can see the rainbow

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Q: What acts as as the prism to produce a rainbow in the sky?
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What acts like a prism when one sees a rainbow?

Water droplets in the sky after a storm.


How does a rainbow get its color?

The light from the sun goes through the water vapor in the air. The vapor acts like a prism, projecting the spectrum (the colors) of the rainbow into the sky.


What can you found when light shines through a prism?

After a rain shower you can usually see a rainbow in the sky. If you shine light through a prism you see a rainbow or more correctly the colour spectrum


What is reason to see rainbow?

When sunlight passes through raindrops, the rain drops act like a glass prism. The sunlight is split into the rainbow colours in the sky, and a rainbow appears.


Can The atmosphere produce the same effects as a prism when the Sun is low in the sky?

yes


What acts as screenin the sky for us to see rainbow?

Basically, a bank of water droplets reflect light back to you. The sunlight from different areas reflects back at different angles, thus causing the "prism" different color effect.


How rainbow appears in the sky?

Apparently, a rainbow appears in the sky because both, rain and sun, mix together and produce light and colours. Some people belive that at the end of a rainbow is gold. But how does the gold just appear suddenly?


Which of these can act like a prism causing the visible light spectrum to be seen in a rainbow across the sky?

there are three choices, the correct one is raindrops


What really is a rainbow?

Rainbows are arcs of spectral colors created when white light is separated into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet light. This occurs when the light is filtered through a prism. Raindrops and mist act as prisms for sunlight and created what we call rainbows in the sky. Note a prism caused "refraction" and that is the term that makes the rainbow a rainbow!


Which appear in the sky after rain?

If it is sunny after the rain has stopped, you are likely to see a rainbow in the sky.


Which colour of White light is scattered the least and why?

White light is light that has not been scattered. Shine a beam of white light through a prism, and the light is separated into 'rainbow' colours. Sunlight shining through raindrops is the cause of a rainbow appearing in the sky.


Does it rain before it snows?

Because the way the sun hits the water, the water acts as a prism and divides the light into the colors of the rainbow, ROY G BIV. Also in CHRISTIAN THEORY is that it's God's promise to not flood the WHOLE Earth again. and God has kept his promise!