Monday, November 16, 2009

Why are the colors of the rainbow only red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet?

What about bronze, silver, gold, tourqouise, etc...

Why are the colors of the rainbow only red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet?
pure while light breaks up into those colours because of refraction. those are also the colours that every other colour is made up of, because of reflected light. example... a black car is black because the pigments absorb all the color from the light and reflect none, a red car absorbs all but red and you see the colour that is reflected. white is nothing absorbed and all reflected. that is an over simplified explanation. there are also varying degrees as to how they are reflected.
Reply:red orange green blue indigo violet
Reply:Roy G. Biv
Reply:Actually, the colors of the rainbow are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. ROY G BIV. It depends upon the angle of the viewer, but the result is the color spectrum being visible due to light passing through water droplets. I'm linking a decent explanation.
Reply:It must be because other things are green, blue, red etc.

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