• Question: What is a rainbow made up of ?

    Asked by Laurenmcch to Emma, Monica, Sebastian, Sinead, Thomas on 12 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sinead Loughran

      Sinead Loughran answered on 12 Nov 2016:

      A rainbows is one of nature’s most splendid masterpieces and shows us that visible light is composed of a spectrum of colours (wavelengths).

      It happens on a rainy sunny day. It is a result of how rain droplets interact with sunlight.

      Each individual droplet of water acts as a tiny prism that both disperses the light and reflects it back to your eye.

    • Photo: Sebastian Gornik

      Sebastian Gornik answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Basically what Sinead said :-)!

    • Photo: Emma Roycroft

      Emma Roycroft answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Exactly!

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