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How do rainbow form?

Rainbows are formed when sunlight is scattered from raindrops through a process called
refraction. This refraction split the whitelight into different colours of light. The colours are red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The scattered whitelight will form a colorfull arc.
This colorfull arc is called rainbow.

Most raindrops are spherical rather than the often depicted 'teardrop' shape. It is this spherical
shape that provides the conditions for a rainbow to be seen. In this spherical raindrops, the light
will refract and reflect a couple times. This process will change the white sunlight into a rainbow.

For the observer to be able to witness the rainbow there must be a specific condition, such as:
1) The sun needs to be behind the viewer
2) The sun needs to be low in the sky, at an angle of less than 42° above the horizon. The lower
the sun in the sky the more of an arc of a rainbow the viewer will see
3) Rain, fog or some other source of water droplets must be in front of the viewer
4) The size of the raindrops does not directly affect the geometry of a rainbow, but mist or fog
tends to disperse the effect more.

So the conclusion is : a rainbow is a natural multicolor arc that appear in the sky after a rain. It
is caused by dispersion of sunlight in a tiny water droplets, present in the atmosphere. A rainbow
is always formed in a direction opposite to that of the Sun. The water droplets act like small prisms
that will split the white sunlight into different coloured light

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