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Why rainbow is seen as an arc?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Because AT the location of every water droplet in the air that forms your

rainbow, the angle between the direction to the sun and the direction to

your eye must be the same. The only shape for which that's possible at

every point is a circle.

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