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What reflects the colors of the rainbow in the sky?


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Rainbow:

  1. A natural spectrum is a rainbow (a band of seven colors-VIBGYOR).
  2. It is created by the dispersion of sunlight by microscopic droplets of water in the atmosphere which is the splitting of white light into seven constituent colors VIBGYOR.
  3. A rainbow is created when sunlight is dispersed by water droplets.

Reflects of colors

  1. The light beams are transmitted through the atmosphere by water droplets.
  2. There are two phenomena that occur as a result of this procedure.
  3. The first is reflection, followed by refraction.
  4. The direction of a light ray changes due to refraction.
  5. This is what causes white light to bend in different directions, giving rise to the rainbow effect.
  6. Inside the water droplet, white light is split, and the refracted light appears to the human eye in different colors.
  7. The splitting of white light into its constituent colors is caused by dispersion.

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