internal reflection of sunlight inside raindrops and/or mist droplets.
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Light from the sun appears to be colourless but it is really made up of all seven visible colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet). When the "white" sunlight enters a raindrop it breaks up into the various colours (due to a process called refraction) and bounces back out of the drop towards your eyes when it reflects off the rear surface of the raindrop.
For this to occur the sun has to be shining and you have to be between where the sun is in the sky and the rain or mist droplets are located. You can make your own rainbow with a garden hose set to mist on a sunny day or by using a prism,
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∙ 12y agoAnonymous
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∙ 8y agoThe raindrop acts as a prism while the white light from the sun splits the white light into 7 colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet), causing a rainbow. When all the sunlight doesn't escape the raindrop the light reflects causing a double rainbow.
The sunlight is reflected at two angles: the normal 40-42 degrees; and also at 50-53 degrees, which causes the second, inverted color, rainbow.
Also if you watch the double rainbow video on YouTube, you can see what it looks like. A double rainbow is a phenomenom of optics that displays a spectrum of light do to the sun shining on droplets of moisture in the atmosphere
Double rainbows are formed by multiple reflections of light inside raindrops. The inner rainbow is brightest and formed by a single internal reflection inside the raindrop. The second rainbow is outside the first and reversed in color order; it is formed by an additional reflection (therefor the reversed color order). The larger and more uniform the raindrops the brighter the rainbows. I have seen three very bright rainbows and heard people say they have seen up to six (at least partial) rainbows.
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∙ 14y ago* There are rainbow after rain because of the sun , the sun has a lots of color in it so it make a rainbow . * And also because the sun is hot .
* I f you want to try it you should follow this step : * you need a bowl of water and put it close to the sun . * wait until you see the rainbow if don't and put it more close to the sun .
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∙ 14y agothere r 2 types of ranbow 1. primary Rainbow- when d Incident ray of sun light doubled refract and singlly reflect on d droplet it causes primary Rainbow. in primary Rainbow red colour exist in outer part and makes 40.8' to the eye contact and red color exist in d inner part and make 42.8' to the eye contact2. secondary Rainbow- when d Incident ray of sun light doubled refract and doubled reflect on d droplet it causes secondary Rainbow. In secondary Rainbow red colour exist in inner part and makes 50.8' to the eye contact and red color exist in d outer part and make 54.52' to the eye contact. * secondary Rainbow is not good visible as primary Rainbow Rainbow causes due 2 d total internal reflection and refraction of sun light when rain occurs and it always views opposite of sun appears.
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∙ 12y agob'cause of the sunlight falls b/w the droplets & the droplet works like prism it separate the white light in 7 colrs..........
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∙ 14y agoAfter a rain shower, if the air is moist and the sun comes out a rainbow appears!!!!!!!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!! =]
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∙ 14y agothe light has to to hit the water at a 90 degree angle
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∙ 8y agoAfter it rains you see a rainbow because, you are seeing the sunlight being reflected onto the rain drops which makes those colours.
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∙ 13y agoleprechauns
The sun is all the different wavelengths of light. When all these lights hit water, the change in the speed of the light causes the light to defract away from one another, so you see th rainbow effect
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They take the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch.
Color Me a Rainbow was created in 1987.
The colors of the rainbow in order are...RedOrangeYellowGreenBluePurple
A rainbow is a spectrum.
wavelength
because of the oils reflect off the sun light witch makes the rainbow shine
This is caused because there is a similar amount of light that fools your eye into thinking its a rainbow.
Refraction and total internal reflection of sun's radiation in fine droplets of water cause rainbow formation
Nope. It's caused by refraction.
The sun refleing off the water
An Xbox 360 video game console that makes a television screen have rainbow colors on it is an issue with the internal hardware. The console needs to be looked at by the manufacturer.
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The sun is all the different wavelengths of light. When all these lights hit water, the change in the speed of the light causes the light to defract away from one another, so you see th rainbow effect
Because the colour of the sky reflects on the rainbow which makes it blue DAH DAH
The rainbow does not have pink in it.
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