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Life Sciences => The Environment => Topic started by: paul.fr on 31/10/2007 08:13:42

Title: can you measure the thickness / width of a rainbow?
Post by: paul.fr on 31/10/2007 08:13:42
and, are all the sections of different colours of equal width in a rainbow?
Title: can you measure the thickness / width of a rainbow?
Post by: eric l on 31/10/2007 08:45:06
and, are all the sections of different colours of equal width in a rainbow?
Actually, there are no "sections" but a gradual passage from red to violet.  It's just that we have no proper name for every shade that makes us divide the rainbow in sections.