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Rainbows: The Secrets Behind These Optical Illusions

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I bet you didn’t know that when you shine a flashlight creating a beam of white light, within that beam all the colors of the rainbow exist.

That simple white beam of light is actually a combination of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red colored beams.

If you take that beam of white light and send it through a glass prism, the different colors will show themselves vividly as they exit at a different angle.

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Rainbows are created in a similar manner.

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