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Rainbow

A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky. The rainbow takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc.

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Number of colours in a spectrum or a rainbow

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Number of colours in a spectrum or a rainbow

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Rainbow

Nodes177
Edges176
Triples279
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011299
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Rainbow

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related to Further reading · 61
Rainbow → Alastair, Art, Berkeley, Blue, Boyer, California, Cambridge University Press, Carl, Color, David, De Rico, De Young Museum, Dover Publications, Fraser, From Myth, Glories, Graham, Greenler, Halos, Hour Skywatcher's Guide
related to Religion, culture and mythology · 35
Rainbow → An, Asgard, Bavaria, Bifröst, Bogotá, Book, Bouffémont, Colombia, Cuchavira, Dzogchen, Epic, France, Generalised, Genesis, Germany, Gilgamesh, Guard, In, In Albanian, In Greek
related to history · 20
Rainbow → According, AD, After Aristotle's, Alistair, Aristotle, Aristotle's, Despite, Fraser, Greek, He, In Naturales Quaestiones, Lee, Newton's, Pythagorean, Raymond, Roman, Seneca, Sun, The, Younger
related to External links · 14
Rainbow → American, Brady Haran, Creating Circular, Description, Double Rainbows, Les Cowley, Merrifield, Michael, Nottingham, Optics, Rainbows, Sixty Symbols, The Mathematics, University
related to Number of colours in a spectrum or a rainbow · 14
Rainbow → Battle In Vain, Biv, For, Greek, Isaac Newton's, Later, More, Newton, Richard Of York Gave, Roy, Scholars, Solar System, The, VIBGYOR
related to Full-circle rainbow · 13
Rainbow → Another, Because, From, In, It, Like, Moon, Since, Sun, Sun's, These, This, Viewing
related to Experiments · 12
Rainbow → Bravais, Descartes, Due, Experiments, Florence, Florence's, Freiberg, It, Later, Other, Theodoric, Under
related to Explanation · 12
Rainbow → Blue, But, Due, Furthermore, If, Seawater, Sun, Sun's, The, There, This, When
related to Higher-order rainbows · 12
Rainbow → An, As, Felix Billet, For, In, More, Nevertheless, Ng, One, Shortly, The, Up
related to Sleetbow · 10
Rainbow → As, December, Indiana, January, Just, Richmond, These, United States, Valparaiso, Virginia

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light rainbows water colours sun primary angle secondary red droplets seen arc different reflection sky also visible bow may reflected

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Rainbowis aoptical phenomenon caused by refraction0.90text
Rainbowis ablurred version of the bow obtained from a point source0.90text
Rainbowis acircle0.90text
in an aeroplaneinstance ofimages of the entire arc and even secondary arcs can be created fairly easily from a series of overlapping frames.From above the Earth0.80text
it is sometimes possible to see a rainbow as a full circleinstance ofimages of the entire arc and even secondary arcs can be created fairly easily from a series of overlapping frames.From above the Earth0.80text
Rainbowrelated to Circumhorizontal and circumzenithal arcsThe0.60section
Rainbowrelated to Circumhorizontal and circumzenithal arcsThis0.60section
Rainbowrelated to Circumhorizontal and circumzenithal arcsBoth0.60section
Rainbowrelated to Circumhorizontal and circumzenithal arcsSun0.60section
Rainbowrelated to Circumhorizontal and circumzenithal arcsMoon0.60section
Rainbowrelated to Double rainbowsThe0.60section
Rainbowrelated to Double rainbowsIn0.60section

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