Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
2006-12-08 08:10:04
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answer #1
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answered by Joy M 7
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Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red
2006-12-08 08:09:32
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answer #2
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answered by Jet 6
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Remember by the mnemonic ROY G BIV
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
2006-12-08 08:11:39
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answer #3
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answered by Carl S 4
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red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
"Actually, the rainbow is a whole continuum of colors from red to violet and even beyond the colors that the eye can see.
The colors of the rainbow arise from two basic facts:
Sunlight is made up of the whole range of colors that the eye can detect. The range of sunlight colors, when combined, looks white to the eye. This property of sunlight was first demonstrated by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666.
Light of different colors is refracted by different amounts when it passes from one medium (air, for example) into another (water or glass, for example).
Descartes and Willebrord Snell had determined how a ray of light is bent, or refracted, as it traverses regions of different densities, such as air and water. When the light paths through a raindrop are traced for red and blue light, one finds that the angle of deviation is different for the two colors because blue light is bent or refracted more than is the red light. This implies that when we see a rainbow and its band of colors we are looking at light refracted and reflected from different raindrops, some viewed at an angle of 42 degrees; some, at an angle of 40 degrees, and some in between. This is illustrated in this drawing, adapted from Johnson's Physical Meteorology. This rainbow of two colors would have a width of almost 2 degrees (about four times larger than the angular size as the full moon). Note that even though blue light is refracted more than red light in a single drop, we see the blue light on the inner part of the arc because we are looking along a different line of sight that has a smaller angle (40 degrees) for the blue."
2006-12-08 08:09:46
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answer #4
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answered by maegical 4
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ROY G BIV - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
2006-12-08 08:10:53
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answer #5
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answered by sschro9131 3
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Red, Orange, Yellow, and Blue ...
Green and Purple are in there too...
I can sing a rainbow ... a rainbow ... a rainbow too!
2006-12-08 08:16:47
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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Use this fun acronym to remember them:
ROY G BIV
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
2006-12-08 08:11:08
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answer #7
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answered by bhl1336 2
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Red, Orange Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. You can remeber them by thinking of Roy G. Biv.
2006-12-08 08:10:54
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answer #8
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answered by missyhardt 4
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V - Violet
I - Indigo
B - Blue
G - Green
Y - Yellow
O - Orange
R - Red
2006-12-08 08:12:08
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answer #9
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answered by Jones 2
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My 5 year old, Molly, just told me they are Red, Blue, Orange, Purple, and Yellow, Pink and Geen. I think she threw pink in there because thats a girls favorite color! She reaaly said Geen instead of green haha
2006-12-08 08:17:01
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answer #10
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answered by ? 4
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