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Water vapor acts like a prism and can break up white light into different colors to cause a rainbow to appear?
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Yes, water vapor can act like a prism.
A rainbow is caused by raindrops, not by vapor. When light enters a raindrop at an angle to its surface, different colors refract at different angles as in a prism. A reflection occurs at the far side of the drop, and more refraction occurs as the light exits the drop, to be seen by your eye. Multiple reflections inside the drop are the cause of multiple ("double", even "triple") rainbows.
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What phenomenon causes rainbow?
The refraction of light through water. Basically light travels through a surface such as water and the different light spectrums get broken down giving you the colors you see.
Are the colors of the rainbow always in the same order?
yes.the rainbow is formed by water droplets acting as a prism, and the prism shows the color spectrum in ORDER And you can get what's called a double rainbow. In that, the order of colors in the outer arc will be reversed. The colours in order are, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. :)
Does it rain before it snows?
Because the way the sun hits the water, the water acts as a prism and divides the light into the colors of the rainbow, ROY G BIV. Also in CHRISTIAN THEORY is that it's God's promise to not flood the WHOLE Earth again. and God has kept his promise!
How put the colors in the rainbow in notes?
dont know but i know how u make them u get some water and sun or a light a put them on together to make one.
What color is dirt?
yes , it is different kinds of dirt colors . sometimes dirt can change colors if put in water 9 year old
Why rainbow having different color?
The Rainbow is made of red, orange, yellow, blue, green, indigo and violet. There are different colors based on how the light moves through particles of water.
What is it called when light moves through water?
Nothing special. But when light travels from one medium to another (from air to water for example) it is refracted. One answerer said a rainbow. A rainbow is caused by the different wavelengths (colors) of light are refracted at slightly different angles, so that we see different colors appearing at different positions.
What happens when white light passes through a prism?
The light is broken into its seven colors (colors of the rainbow) and exits the prism at a different angle with the separated colors. It functions in the exact same way water droplets separate light to create an actual rainbow, but with cut glass instead of water.
How do human eyes observe the different colors of the rainbow?
Human eyes observe different colors of the rainbow due to the dispersion of light by water droplets in the atmosphere. Each color in the rainbow corresponds to a different wavelength of light, and our eyes can perceive these colors based on how they are refracted and reflected.
How does an ordinary rainbow occur from a light ray hitting a drop of water?
The molecules in the water refracts visible light like a prism and seperates light into the different wavelengths and thus colors creating the rainbow.
What cause the rainbow?
The colors of the rainbow are all present in sunlight, but mixed together. As sunlight passes through small water droplets in foggy air, the water droplets act as lenses which alter the direction of the light, and which affect different colors to different degrees, thereby breaking up the white light into a spectrum.
Why don't you get a rainbow when it snows?
rainbows are formed when it rains. when the ray of sunlight passes on a raindrop (which is in form of water), the ray of light breaks and the broken ray of light turns into different colors which are the rainbow colors. this process is called refraction.
Why does a rainbow have different colours?
Rainbows have different colors because when the sun (which is actually white) reflects on a raindrop, the white from the sun projects the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet which make a colorful rainbow.
What does light colors water gold and leprechaun have in common?
Rainbow
Why is a rainbow only show when it rains?
The same reason there are rainbows in the sky: the rain acts as a prism, which splits the sunlight into it's different colors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism_(optics)
When do a rainbow appear?
Rainbows appear sometimes when its raining and some appear after but they should dissapear.A rainbow should appear whenever the sun is behind you in a clear skyAND there are water drops in the air in front of you.
When you mix rainbow colors in water it turn black?
no. it makes white.
