It Takes The Entire Rainbow Of Colors To Make The Sky Blue. Here's Why.
It might seem like a simple question. But the science behind a blue sky isn't that easy. For starters, it involves something ...
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Rainbow Colors Always Appear in the Same Order
"Why are there so many songs about rainbows?" sings Kermit the Frog in a song (about rainbows) called "Rainbow Connection" from 1979's "The Muppet Movie." And it's not just songs that feature rainbows ...
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'R' is for Rainbow
When light passes through certain objects—such as prisms, rain droplets, or a CD—the different wavelengths can be bent at different angles. This makes the colors separate, so we see them as the ...
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Why are rubies red and emeralds green? Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure
Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and ...
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Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains
Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...
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Newton’s Color Theory, ca. 1665
“It has no justification in experiment exactly; it just represents something that he’s imposing upon the color spectrum by analogy with music.” Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had ...
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Rainbow colors banned in court before same-sex marriage ruling
Before its ruling concerning same-sex marriages, the Fukuoka District Court ordered visitors to remove or cover up anything showing rainbow colors, the symbol for the LGBT rights movement. The ...