What makes the colours in a rainbow?

Question

What makes the colours in a rainbow?

Answer 1

The rainbow is made up of seven different colors; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The rainbow even contains colors that the eye can not see

Answer 2

a very detailed explanation, from MIT (watch course 22, 23)

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-03Fa...

Answer 3

When it rains and it is still sunny, the white light from the sun shine through the droplets. These act like prisms and split the the white light into the 7 primary and secondary colours it is made of - red orange yellow green blue indigo violet.

The same thing also happens with waterfalls, fountains and sprinklers.

Answer 4

after a rain there remains vapor of water in air and as the sun rises the light of the sun was devided into colors the vapor acts like a prism.............

and so rainbow is formed

Answer 5

The colors themselves!

Answer 6

In the rain drops the light of the sun enters & produces colors.

Answer 7

well it is after it rains and water from the rain evaporate. then the rains stops and the gas(which was water before) and it is through the atmosphere which explains it all.