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What causes a double rainbow??

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i saw one last night, very cool.

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  1. look @ this website,

    Sometimes we see two rainbows at once, what causes this? We have followed the path of a ray of sunlight as it enters and is reflected inside the raindrop. But not all of the energy of the ray escapes the raindrop after it is reflected once. A part of the ray is reflected again and travels along inside the drop to emerge from the drop. The rainbow we normally see is called the primary rainbow and is produced by one internal reflection; the secondary rainbow arises from two internal reflections and the rays exit the drop at an angle of 50 degrees° rather than the 42°degrees for the red primary bow. Blue light emerges at an even larger angle of 53 degrees°. his effect produces a secondary rainbow that has its colors reversed compared to the primary, as illustrated in the drawing, adapted from the Science Universe Series  Sight, Light, and Color.  


  2. The same kind of thing that causes a single rainbow, but with two bounces at the back of the water drop.

    Once, in New Mexico, I saw a triple rainbow.

  3. They have 2 pots of gold instead of one, they are pretty.  

  4. water vapor...

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