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  2. ROYGBIV - Wikipedia

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    The conventional gradient colors of the rainbow symbol. ROYGBIV is an acronym for the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. When making an artificial rainbow, glass prism is used, but the colors of "ROY-G-BIV" are

  3. Rainbow - Wikipedia

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    The secondary rainbow is fainter than the primary because more light escapes from two reflections compared to one and because the rainbow itself is spread over a greater area of the sky. Each rainbow reflects white light inside its coloured bands, but that is "down" for the primary and "up" for the secondary. [ 30 ]

  4. It Takes The Entire Rainbow Of Colors To Make The Sky Blue ...

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    Red, orange and yellow have longer wavelengths, which means, in short, they have a better chance of making the long journey. -Wildfire smoke that turns the sky a hazy orange.

  5. Spectral color - Wikipedia

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    A rainbow is a decomposition of white light into all of the spectral colors. Laser beams are monochromatic light, thereby exhibiting spectral colors. A spectral color is a color that is evoked by monochromatic light, i.e. either a spectral line with a single wavelength or frequency of light in the visible spectrum, or a relatively narrow spectral band (e.g. lasers).

  6. Rainbow flag (LGBTQ) - Wikipedia

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    Although Baker's original rainbow flag had eight colors, [5] [6] from 1979 to the present day the most common variant consists of six stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The flag is typically displayed horizontally, with the red stripe on top, as it would be in a natural rainbow .

  7. Did You Know That Oranges Weren't Always Orange? - AOL

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    In fact, they used to come in a rainbow of colors that are hard to imagine. As History Facts explained, you can trace the fruit's beginnings back to the Himalayas some 8 million years ago.

  8. The history and meaning behind traditional Christmas colors

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    Purple has long been considered to be a regal and royal color because, as Sawaya explains, prior to 1856, purple dyes and pigments were rare and only the wealthiest could afford it.

  9. Newton disc - Wikipedia

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    Colour distribution of a Newton disk. The Newton disk, also known as the disappearing color disk, is a well-known physics experiment with a rotating disk with segments in different colors (usually Newton's primary colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, commonly known by the abbreviation ROYGBIV) appearing as white (or off-white or grey) when it's spun rapidly about its axis.