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The human eye is sensitive to electro-magnetic waves, within a very narrow band. This is known as 'White light'.

This very narrow range has differing wavelengths. Red being the longest wavelength and blue being the shortest wavelength. which we see in a yellow is between this long/short limits of wavelength , hence we see yellow.

Sir Isaac newton( he of gravity fame), in his treatise named 'Optics'. demonstrated the splitting of white light into the colours of the rainbow. Going from longest wavelength to shortest wavelength , the colours are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, & indigo. Which we see in a natural rainbow in that order.

The human eye is NOT sensitive to ultra-violet(UV) nor to infra-red, as they are just outside the sensitivity of the human eye.

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