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The colors with decreasing wavelength:

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

Just keep in mind the mnemonic ROY Goes Bowling In Vietnam.

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What is white light in a rainbow?

White light in a rainbow is sunlight that is composed of all the colors in the visible spectrum. When sunlight passes through raindrops, it is refracted and dispersed into its different wavelengths, creating the beautiful spectrum of colors seen in a rainbow.


Why do you see rainbow colours when you look through a plastic transparent ruler?

Because it splits the light ray into the different coloured rays that make up a regular visible light ray all the colours of the rainbow make the light colour that we see when they are mixed togethet


What are the 7 colours of the rainbow?

The seven colours of the rainbow are:RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletOne way to remember the list is by using the words ROY& VIB, which are the initial letters of the list, starting from the two ends, and then meeting at green, being the colour between blue & yellow.Another way to remember is that there are two invisible colours after the ends of the visible scale, Infra Red and Ultra Violet. Starting from these two ends, you may be able to visualize and then deduce the chain of colours in the sequence required to meet up in the middle!


What colours are white light is a combination of?

White light is a combination of all colors in the visible spectrum. When white light passes through a prism, it separates into different colors, creating a rainbow.


Is white light monochromatic light?

No exactly the contrary, white light is made up of light of all the colours of the rainbow. And you need to take that literally. The rainbow has these colours because rain acts as a prism and breaks the white light of the sun apart in the colours it is made up of. Because monochromatic means 'of one and the same colour', white light is not monochromatic. LASER light is always monochromatic: all particles have exactly the same wavelength (colour)

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