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The electromagnetic spectrum from shortest wavelength:
Gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet, the visible spectrum (violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red), infrared, microwaves, and the various radio waves (UHF, VHF, SW, MW, LW). All of these together make up what is known as the electromagnetic spectrum. Only a small part is visible, what is generally called light. Technically, there is nothing as infrared LIGHT and ultraviolet LIGHT. And no, there is no "infra-other-colors" because those have names. For example, infra blue would be green, and infra violet would be indigo.

NOTE: infrared is NOT red. But this could be confusing because on most, if not all, remote controls for TV, when a selection is made a red light comes on (on the control). That's just an LED (light emitting diode) to show that the TV remote is in use. The type of radiation that the remote actually uses comes from a small window that you point at the TV. If you must point the remote at the TV before it works, it uses infrared signal; if you can point the remote at a wall opposite the TV and it controls the TV, it uses radio waves (longer wavelength).

2006-09-04 12:33:37 · answer #1 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0 0

The visible colour spectrum is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet i.e. the colours of the rainbow. There are also invisible light rays and the colour below red is infrared (infra is Latin for "below"). At the other end of the spectrum beyond violet we have ultraviolet (ultra being the Latin for "Beyond" or "above")

2006-09-04 10:36:02 · answer #2 · answered by Gobansoar 2 · 0 0

First you must know that the colour of light we see depends on lenght of the electromagnetic wave (light is a electromagnetic wave).
So. Talking about waves that we can see blue has the shortest wave and red has the longest. The waves that are longer than red waves are called infra red because they are like "under" red. The waves shorter (in other words with greater frequency) than blue are called ultraviolet.

That will help you understand it better

2006-09-04 10:42:29 · answer #3 · answered by konrad 2 · 0 0

No. Infrared is the only "infra" color.

Infra, Latin for "below,", means the infra-red is below our vision range, whereas the other end is above.

2006-09-04 10:28:16 · answer #4 · answered by Life after 45 6 · 0 0

Infrared is light with a frequency just below red light. Infragreen could be used to describe light with a frequency just below green, but we already have a name for that: yellow.

2006-09-04 10:30:39 · answer #5 · answered by sandiego_roleplay 1 · 0 0

infra is latin for "below"..... the visible light goes from violet to red... from high energy, low wavelength to low energy, high wavelength.... remember ROYGBIV..... infra-red means the wave that has less energy than visible red... "infra-green" would mean a wave with less energy than visible green, which would be yellow.... "infra-yellow" would mean orange light.... now on the other side of the spectrum, we have ultra-violet, which is the wave with higher energy than visible violet... but there is no so-called "ultra-red" or "ultra-green"
red and violet are the two extremes of the visible spectrum, and as a result you have infra-red (lower than red) or ultra-violet (higher than violet), but no other infra or ultra lights

2006-09-04 10:34:42 · answer #6 · answered by James B 1 · 0 0

not really

the reason we call infrared, infrared is because it is farther down the spectrum than red

we don't have names for the infrared wavelengths because they are invisible to people

the visible spectrum is a range of frequencies (colors) that we can see

the shortest wavelength we see is red, then orange

the visible spectrum is normally summarized as:
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
indigo
violet

infrared are those invisible wavelengths that are shorter than red

ultra violet, are those invisible wavelengths longer than violet (at the other end of the visible spectrum)

2006-09-04 10:30:44 · answer #7 · answered by enginerd 6 · 0 0

No. It is called infrared because it is below red, that is, it has a wavelength just longer than red on the electromagnetic spectrum.

Infragreen wouldn't make sense because our eyes can see colors that are infragreen, that is, we'd just call it red. Infrapurple, likewise, we just call green.

2006-09-04 10:29:17 · answer #8 · answered by James N 2 · 0 0

All the colors from the spectrum have a frequency f.
Infra means in this case lower (frequency).
f(yellow) < f(orange) so orange can be called infra yellow.
It is never done.

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2006-09-04 10:30:13 · answer #9 · answered by Thermo 6 · 0 0

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2016-11-24 21:39:25 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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