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How Many Colors are in the Rainbow?

The Science of Rainbows: Understanding the Colors Rainbows are a natural meteorological phenomenon that occurs when sunlight interacts with water droplets in the atmosphere. When light passes through a water droplet, it is refracted, or bent, and dispersed into its component colors. This dispersion of light causes the familiar rainbow color sequence, which is usually described by the acronym ROYGBIV:…