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What is the order of colors in a rainbow?
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet are the colors of the rainbow,
but these are not necessarily the sequence of colors that an observer might see.
Rainbows are formed when raindrops reflect sunlight.  As sunlight enters the drops,
the different wavelengths of the colors that compose sunlight are refracted at
different lengths to produce a spectrum of color.  Each observer sees a different set
of raindrops at a slightly different angle.  Drops at different angles from the observer
send different wave lengths (i.e. different color) to the observer's eyes.  Since the
color sequence of the rainbow is the result of refraction, the color order depends
on how the viewer sees this refraction from the viewer's angle of perception.


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