What gives the rainbow its colors?

Question

What gives the rainbow its colors?

Answer 1

different light that breaks through our atmosphere

Answer 2

water in the sky acts like a prism and breaks white light into different colors

Answer 3

The rain droplets in the atmosphere act as a giant prism. When the sunlight strikes this mass it is refracted into the 7 visible colours (ROYGBIV), each with their own sector of the (visible) light waveband.. Sunlight also has infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths, but these are not visible to the human eye.

Answer 4

reflection of light

light/white is made up of colors

Answer 5

elements

Answer 6

the reflection of the suns rays that act sort of like a prism

Answer 7

Refraction of sunlight through water droplets does this. It has an interesting way of splitting the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum into seven colors. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The order of the colors, from top to bottom, is determined by the wavelength and frequency of the color. Red, which has the longest wavelength and the lowest frequency, is placed at top. Violet, which has the shortest wavelength and the highest frequency, is placed at the bottom.

Answer 8

Leprechauns... that or sunlight refracting through water vapor in the air

Answer 9

A rainbow splits visible light into its seven constituent colours.

This is caused by moisture or rain in the atmosphere acting as a prism.

If you can get hold of a glass prism, you can see exactly the same effect by passing a stream of light through it and letting the resultant 'rainbow' fall onto a piece of white paper.

It's an interesting experiment if you've never seen it done.

Answer 10

After it rains the sun's light hits the water in different places which gives the rainbow it's color.

Answer 11

A rainbow is sunlight spread out into an arc of colours and seen by your eyes when the sun shines through water droplets.

When looking towards the rainbow the sun is always behind you.

  

Water droplets and sunlight act upon each other. The droplets are round and it is the way that the sun’s rays hit the droplets that causes the colours of the light to spread out in an arc.

Sunlight always looks white but in fact, is made up of seven colours - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The rainbow is a whole band of colours and goes even beyond the colours that the eye can see.