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The colors line up the way they do based on their wavelengths. Red has the largest wavelength, orange's is a little smaller, yellow smaller, and so forth until you get to purple (indigo & violet), which has the smallest wavelength. Because these wavelengths never change, the colors are always in that order.
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What does a transparent object do with light that strikes it?
If its flat, it might just reflect it. If it is shaped liked a prism, it may separate the colors (like rainbows).
All of the colors in white light are visable when white light is?
Yes, although the separate colors are perceived to your eye as white. If you have a prism you can separate white light into the continuous color spectrum. This effect is also achieved in rainbows.
What does a prism do to light when it is going through a prism?
It separates white light into it's individual colors (rainbow). Rainbows are formed by water droplets acting as prisms
What property of light causes rainbows to form?
White light is the combination of the colors that form a rainbow. Those colors are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet (ROYGBIV). A rainbows form because white light is shone through water droplets which acts as a prism slowing down the different wavelengths of these different color lights causing them to split up into their individual components again.
For normal incidence does white light disperse into it's constituent colours?
that is where we get rainbows. light shines through rain drops and refracts it's individual colors. For normal incidence there is no dispersion and hence the rays will not disperse into its constituent colors .(pearlsawme)
Do the colors of rainbows have to be in order?
Yes
Why don't rainbows show the color pink?
When a ray of white sunlight hits drops of water (also in the forms of spray and mist), it bends and breaks the sun ray into into different colors. These colors span the entire spectrum of colors and because the spectrum of colors is always the same and always in the same order, rainbows are always the same color. The order of the colors are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
How do prisims create rainbows?
the colors are always present...the prism allows you to see them.
What are the most interesting things about rainbows?
The most interesting things about rainbows is that rainbows have colors of the spectrum and colors look beautiful.
What are the colors in rainbows in oder?
The colors of the rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet those are the colors of the rainbow in order.
Do the Lesbian Gay community follow the same order of colors in the rainbows they wear?
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How are rainbows able to show seven colors in that particular order?
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Why do rainbows have the same colour pattern?
Because your eye always interprets the same range of wavelengths as the same series of colors.
Why do rainbows have 7 colors?
because the color spectrum has 7 colors
When was I'm Always Chasing Rainbows created?
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows was created in 1917.
Why are rainbows Multicolored?
Rainbows are multicolored because the white light is refracted spliting it apart into its individual colors
What is a personification for rainbows?
Rainbows can be personified as playful dancers in the sky, spreading colors and joy wherever they appear.
