Why are the colours in rainbows in separate lines?
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Light gets refracted every which way in a rainbow thru water droplets in the air – depending on the wavelength of light and the angle it passes thru a water droplet. But, in the center of the rainbow, refracted wavelengths or colors combine with refracted colors from other droplets to make white light again. That’s why the center of a rainbow is often brighter than the surrounding sky. The bands of colors we think of as a rainbow are just the edge where colors are refracted at angles that don’t combine with other colors.
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