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White light contains all wavelengths of colors. To make a rainbow, you need to separate those wavelengths (colors). This is accomplished by bending, or diffracting light. Different wavelengths of light are bent differently when they are passed through a transparent prism. When they are bent diffrently, they start to separate from one another and become visible to the eye as different colors.

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Another name for rainbow?

A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow) is a rainbow that occurs at night. Moonbows are relatively faint, due to the smaller amount of light from the Moon. As with rainbows, they are always in the opposite part of the sky from the moon. It is difficult to discern colors in a moonbow because the light is usually too faint to excite the cone color receptors in our eyes. However, the colors appear in long exposure photographs. A colored circle around the moon is not a moonbow - it is usually a 22


What colour does red green and blue make when mixed?

Well, isn't that just a happy little question! When you mix red, green, and blue together, you get a lovely color called white. It's like a beautiful rainbow coming together in harmony. Just remember, there are no mistakes in art, only happy accidents!


What color is associated with the rainbow girl?

Rainbow girls love all the colors of the rainbow. They are required to wear pastel and light colors, or white, to meetings. The color that most Rainbow girls hold most dear, however, is the color violet, which is imbedded with meaning in the order. This color is symbolic because it is attached to the lesson of service (service to others and the community) and in Rainbow, service is one of the greatest lessons there is to learn.


A rainbow of colors is called a?

Visible Light Spectrum.


Why is a rainbow called a rainbow?

A rainbow is called a rainbow because it is a colorful arc of light that forms in the sky when sunlight is refracted, or bent, by raindrops in the atmosphere. The different colors of the rainbow are caused by the sunlight being split into its various wavelengths as it passes through the raindrops.

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How white light light makes a rainbow?

White light, if passing through a prism, can make a rainbow via the optics phenomenon known as dispersion.


What do the colors of the rainbow make?

The colors of the rainbow combine to make white light. Each color has a different wavelength, and when they are all combined, they create the full spectrum of colors that make up white light.


How does white and water make a rainbow?

The water acts like a prism and white light shines through it, it makes a rainbow.


What does a prism do to white light?

It separates the light by their wavelengths to make a color spectrum, and gives one a rainbow.


What does a prism to white light?

It separates the light by their wavelengths to make a color spectrum, and gives one a rainbow.


When the colors of the rainbow combine what color does it make?

White. All of the colours are white with some colouring removed so every colour combined will make white.


What is the integral component of a working spectroscope?

it can be break up white light and make a rainbow


What happens when you make a rainbow with the help of a glass of water and sunlight?

The sunlight hits the glass of water and then the light disperses out as a spectrum of colour (rainbow). This is because sunlight is white light and white light contains the 7 colours of the rainbow. When it hits the glass the colours refract and disperse out as the spectrum of colours, which we see as a rainbow.


When you look at white light through a glass prism you see a rainbow of color called?

light is white. if you mix the colors of the rainbow you get white. A prism separates the colors, showing a rainbow.


What are the colours of the rainbow collectively know as?

white light contains all of the colors of the rainbow, so if all of the rainbow's colors shown collectively at one point, the light would be white light (like the sun's light).


Why isn't there white color in rainbow?

White light is actually a combination of all the colors of the rainbow. When white light passes through a prism, it separates into the different colors of the spectrum due to their different wavelengths. The colors we see in a rainbow are a result of this separation of white light.


The colors of white light make up a?

The colours of white light are all of the colors that make up a rainbow. White light is actually a mixture of all colors.