The formation of rainbow is due to the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays as they fall on the rain drops.More details are given below.
As a ray passes into a drop of rain,the water inside the drop acts as a prism.The ray is refracted as it enters the drop and is separated into different colours.These colours then undergo total internal reflection on the opposite inner side of the droplet, refract again when they come out of the droplet and reach the eye to enable us see the vitual image of the rainbow.In fact many such droplets are responsible for the formation of the rainbow.
2007-10-27 21:33:26
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answered by Arasan 7
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When it rains when the sun is out, they form something to create a rainbow. A rumor is that when a rainbow comes, a special person is being born and that God is really happy.
2007-10-27 08:59:33
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answered by pineapple125 5
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Rainbows are optical and meteorological phenomena that cause a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They take the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch. More rarely, a secondary rainbow is seen, which is a second, fainter arc, outside the primary arc, with colours in the opposite order, that is, with violet on the outside and red on the inside.
2007-10-27 07:50:46
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answered by peaches6 7
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Rainbows are optical and meteorological phenomena that cause a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere
2007-10-27 07:50:02
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answered by Lord Mavramorn 2
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When white light (which is made of all colors) passes through a water droplet at an oblique angle, the long-wavelength light (red) is deflected at a larger angle than the short-wavelength light (violet). The water droplet essentially functions as a prism.
So, the red light from the Sun strikes the water droplets at all oblique angles at once, and it forms (from your perspective) a ring, with the angle of deflection determining the size of the ring. The red light is deflected a large angle, so it appears as a large ring, however the ground gets in the way of part of it, so you only see a half-ring. Likewise for the other colors, except the rings get smaller as you progress from red to violet.
2007-10-27 07:55:31
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answered by lithiumdeuteride 7
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There is a workshop in San Francisco where Gay people toil day and night, alternately creating rainbows and packing fudge. Its called, strangely enough, the rainbow brite fudge factory.
2007-10-27 14:39:27
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answered by DEERnHeadlights 2
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Rainbows have been created after the large Flood that God despatched to wipe out the sin of the Earth. that's His promise to His people who he will by no skill flood the Earth back nor will he ever curse the Earth as punishment. some Bibles truly placed this in the tale of Noah's Ark, however the Bibles that are extra for inner maximum study each so often don't have the beginning of the rainbow in it. in case you want to locate it in the Bible, you will could desire to look in some diverse ones to locate it. seem for merely undeniable, scripture crammed Bibles with little to no notes in the margins or footers. the tale would be in Genesis financial ruin 8, close to to the top.
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answered by ? 4
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The moisture, raindrops in the air refract, divide, the different color wave lengths which cause the rainbow to appear.
2007-10-27 07:52:47
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answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7
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Its just sunlight refracting through moisture in the air, it splits the white light from the sun into all the colors of the spectrum
2007-10-27 07:50:26
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answered by Anonymous
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The light gets separated into the different spectrum, each with a different color.
2007-10-27 11:43:58
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answered by Q.Z. 4
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