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Like water drops in falling rain, the CD separates white light into all the colors that make it up. The colors you see reflecting from a CD are interference colors, like the shifting colors you see on a soap bubble or an oil slick.
You can think of light as as being made up of waves-like the waves in the ocean. When light waves reflect off the ridges on your CD, they overlap and interfere with each other. Sometimes the waves add together, making certain colors brighter, and sometimes they cancel each other, taking certain colors away.
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Does a real diamond reflect other colors?
Diamond reflects all the colours of the rainbow and all the shades in between, based in its natural mineral qualities.
What do you call in a band of colors as seen in a rainbow?
a rainbow
What are the colors of the rainbow and their meaning?
All colors visible to the human eye are in the rainbow. They have no specific meaning.
Why does rainbow has seven colors?
Rainbow has infinite number of colors. Every color the human eye can see is there.
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.
Why is it that white light can reflect the 7 colors of the rainbow?
It doesn't. Light doesn't reflect other things; light can be reflected (by a mirror, for example). White light is a mixture of all colors of visible light. In a rainbow, or prism, it is separated into its components.
Why does cameras and binoculars need prism?
because prisms reflect images and light for an image into colors of a rainbow
What colors do white objects absorb?
White is the resultant of all colors being reflected. White objects of course absorb some light but due reflect all the colors of the rainbow as we see them.
Number or colors on a rainbow?
If I'm not mistaking, but I believe there are 7 colors on a Rainbow.
What objects are made up of all the colors of the rainbow?
Every thing. some objects reflect some colors(the colors that we see) and absorb all others(the ones we don't see). the colors that are reflected and blend to make all the different colors.
What makes diamonds sparkle colors?
Diamonds reflect all colors of light (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet), so, like a rainbow, you see all of these colors reflected in the gem.
Does a real diamond reflect other colors?
Diamond reflects all the colours of the rainbow and all the shades in between, based in its natural mineral qualities.
What are the primary colors of the rainbow?
the primary colors of the rainbow are red blue and yellow
What do you call in a band of colors as seen in a rainbow?
a rainbow
Are rainbow colors the colors of peace?
no.
What are the typical rainbow colors?
There are several typical rainbow colors. They include red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. These are the seven typical rainbow colors.
What is a rainbow made out of?
Its made when the suns light reflects the particles in rain the light from the sun is white light. white light is made up of many colors. when the light hits a raindrop the colors refract and reflect and are shown as the colors of the specrum. - animalgirl11
