2007-02-24 13:41:12 · 10 answers · asked by Santo L 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Light plus water
It is simply light passing through a prism or those tiny drops of water.
2007-02-24 13:44:38 · answer #1 · answered by michelle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a nearly continuous spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outside and violet on the inside. More rarely, a double rainbow is seen, which includes a second, fainter arc with colours in the opposite order, that is, with violet on the outside and red on the inside.
Even though a rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colours, traditionally the full sequence of colours is most commonly cited and remembered as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet ("Roy G. Biv" is a popular mnemonic).
2007-02-24 15:01:41 · answer #2 · answered by paul13051956 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a nearly continuous spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outside and violet on the inside. More rarely, a double rainbow is seen, which includes a second, fainter arc with colours in the opposite order, that is, with violet on the outside and red on the inside.
2007-02-24 13:49:20 · answer #3 · answered by Patricia Sonia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A rainbow is when it rains and the suns light (which is made of all the colors of the rainbow put together) shines on the drops of rain which makes the light split back to all the individual colors which make white light
2007-02-25 00:01:48 · answer #4 · answered by simon.vale 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a rainbow
2007-02-25 03:34:10 · answer #5 · answered by Roxy♥Babe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sun passes through these tiny drops of rain and makes different colors. Like an Example of your water hose spraying hard in the air, The tiny wates are falled off of the stream of water and when the sun passes through them they make color.
2007-02-24 16:44:11 · answer #6 · answered by Purtee56 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water vapor in the air, fine mist. Your just seeing the light passing through the mist at the right angle!
2007-02-24 13:47:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a mixture of 7 colours lined up one after the other its colours r VIBGYOR which is very beautiful scene
2007-02-24 14:31:38 · answer #8 · answered by akhila k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a visible spectrum , nothing but when the sunlight hits something that will reflect it it forms colors
2007-02-24 13:48:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
defused light
2007-02-25 09:20:06 · answer #10 · answered by Ibredd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋