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sábado, 4 de fevereiro de 2012

7 Colours of the Rainbow



Have you ever seen a rainbow? Sometimes when the sun is shining and it is rainy somewhere at the same time, you can see a rainbow. It's a huge arch of colours in the sky. It's caused by the light from the sun being broken up by water droplets in the atmosphere. The sun's light is "white", but the water droplets break it up into seven different colours, always in this order:


RED


ORANGE


YELLOW


GREEN


BLUE


INDIGO


VIOLET


There is an easy way to remember them (a mnemonic):
- Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain


These colours are the "visible" part of the sun's radiation. But there are many other parts that are not visible to the human eye. For example:
- immediately below red is "infraRED"
- immediately beyond violet is "ultraVIOLET" (UV)


Word Checker


arch: a curved symmetrical structure
atmosphere: the air
colour (British English) color (American English)
droplet: a very small drop of liquid
infra: below
mnemonic: a device or trick to aid the memory
ultra: beyond

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