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What are the 3 primary colors of light and all the colors of the rainbow?

The 3 primary colors of light are Red Blue GreenThe secondary colors are Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta The "primary colors" are red, blue, and green. Combining these colors can create any color or shade of light, and they are represented in video displays by individual color dots within each display pixel.The "primary colors of light" refer to the "colors of the rainbow", or spectrum, which are the individual wavelength ranges present in visible light.Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet (mnemonic acronym ROY G BIV ) (note indigo is not considered a scientific solitary color anymore, demoted kind of like the dwarf planet Pluto)In "subtractive coloration", dye colors are used that absorb one or more wavelengths of light, causing the reflected light to appear as a given color. These absorptive dyes are the colors cyan (bluish), magenta (reddish), and yellow. Along with black, they are ink colors in computer printing. (mnemonic CMYK for cyan, yellow, magenta, black)(* See the related question "what are the primary colors")FYI- The 3 Primary colors of PAINT- what we draw/color with are different-They are red, blue and yellow


How are the secondary colors of light related to the primary colors?

Because there would be no secondary colors without primary colors mixing together.


What are primary and secondary colors?

The primary colors are "Red" "Blue" and "Yellow. The secondary colors are the colors that are made by mixing the primary colors. Examples : Blue + Red = Purple Red + Yellow = Orange Yellow + Blue = Green.


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).


Is green a primary or secondary color?

the primary colors are red yellow and blue. secondary colors are colors that you get if you mix two of the primary colors. if you mix blue and yellow you will get green. It is secondary.

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What are the primary colors oh the rainbow?

primary colors are red, yellow and blue


List three colors that can combine to produce all the colors of the rainbow?

The primary colors: red, blue and green. The primary colors of light do this, which does NOT include yellow. Red, green and blue are the primary colors of light, and, as you probably know, rainbows are just light. You can also test out the red, green blue primary colors on a computer and see that any color you can think of can be made with them.


What are the colors that form the other rainbow colors?

The colors of the rainbow are RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE INDIGO VIOLET.Red, Yellow & blue are primary so no colors make up them.Green=Yellow+BlueViolet=Blue+RedIndigo=Violet+Blue


What makes primary colors different from all the other colors of the rainbow?

Colors consist of primary colors and secondary colors. Primary colors are used to make secondary colors. Examples of this include red and blue making purple and red and yellow making orange. Primary colors cannot be made by mixing other colors.


Number or colors on a rainbow?

If I'm not mistaking, but I believe there are 7 colors on a Rainbow.


Why black and white are not primary color?

primary colours are the colours of the rainbow( VIBGYOR).Now White is made by mixing all the colours of the rainbow and black is also made by by mixing some colours present in the rainbow.so the colours present in the rainbow are primary colours and all the other colours in the world are made by mixing them in someway.Secondary colours are not naturally present. .....................................Gho$t


What color is the rainbow a primary color or a secondary?

Primary colors are the three basic colors red yellow and blue. Secondary colors are created when primary colors are mixed for example: green (blue yellow) purple (red blue) orange (red yellow)


What is the order of the Colors of the rainbow in?

The order of colors in the rainbow are: red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet. The rainbow is made up of 6 basic colors: 3 primary colors - red, yellow and blue 3 secondary colors - orange, green and purple After this are 6 tertiary colors: red/orange, orange/yellow, yellow/green, green/blue, blue/purple and purple red. From here are quaternary colors, quinary colors and so on.


What is primary rainbow?

A primary rainbow is a natural optical phenomenon caused by sunlight being refracted, reflected, and dispersed by water droplets in the atmosphere. It consists of a continuous spectrum of colors, with red on the outer edge and violet on the inner edge.


What color is on the inside curve of the secondary rainbow?

The order of colors in a secondary rainbow is reversed compared to a primary rainbow, so the inside curve would have a slightly broader band of red at the top and blue at the bottom.


What concepts explains how the rainbow is formed?

A rainbow is formed when sunlight is refracted, reflected, and dispersed in water droplets in the sky, creating a spectrum of colors. The primary concept behind this is called dispersion, where different wavelengths of light are refracted at slightly different angles, revealing the various colors of the rainbow.


What happens when the colors of the rainbow mix?

The mixing primary colors of pigment is when they are added together, fewer colors of light are reflected and were absorbed, but the mixing primary colors of light is when two of the same amounts of light combined together to form a color of white. If they are not at the same amount of light, then the colors it formed will be the secondary colors.