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Rainbows are formed when sunlight falling on raindrops is split into the different colors of the spectrum (range) of light. Sunlight is really a mixture of all the colors of the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, but our eyes always see them as ordinary white light.

When a beam of light passes at an angle through a curved transparent surface, such as a raindrop, the beam is bent when it emerges. The different colors of light are bent by different amounts, so the wh read more...

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