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why is the sky blue why not red or orange
this is a serious question
no rude remarks or answers please

2007-02-23 14:20:59 · 6 answers · asked by butterfly18 3 in Science & Mathematics Physics

6 answers

BLUE COLOUR OF THE SKY -

It is due to scattering of light. According to Rayleigh, "Intensity of scattered light varies inversely as the fourth power of the wavelenght of light". As wavelenght of blue colour is greater than the wavelenght of red colour, blue colour is scattered maximum and hence sky appears blue.

2007-02-23 15:18:06 · answer #1 · answered by Black Eyes 2 · 2 0

the blue colour of the sky is by technique of Rayleigh scattering. As gentle strikes contained in the direction of the ambience, various the longer wavelengths pass right away by using. Little of the crimson, orange and yellow gentle is stricken by using the air. in spite of the undeniable fact that, many of the shorter wavelength gentle is absorbed by using the gasoline molecules. The absorbed blue gentle is then radiated in distinctive guidelines. It gets scattered everywhere in the sky. Whichever path you look, a number of this scattered blue gentle reaches you. considering you notice the blue gentle from everywhere overhead, the sky seems blue.

2016-12-18 09:48:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

because of the angle at which the light from the sun is bent. as with all colors...just like in the prisim in your school science book.
notice...later in the evening the sky turns all sorts of colors, like orange and red, this is because the light has to travel through more atmosphere...thus changing the angle of bending,

2007-02-23 14:32:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Rayleigh scattering. Just like it was the last 1000 times this was asked today. Which makes me think you're not looking for the answer - because you could have just read it off of any of those questions.

2007-02-23 14:29:10 · answer #4 · answered by eri 7 · 0 1

It is a reflection of the world's oceans and sunlight only goes so far down. SO therefore it's blue I guess.

2007-02-23 14:26:21 · answer #5 · answered by danielromero60 3 · 1 1

It has to do with the wavelength. I think blue is the shortest wavelength. Not sure.

2007-02-23 14:24:12 · answer #6 · answered by Blarepen 2 · 0 0

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