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Is there a rainbow every time it rains?
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No, because it's not easy tying rain in a bow and painting it all those different colors! Sometimes the rain fairy just ties a rain knot, but you can't see it because she doesn't paint it!
Answer Date: 04:27pm 05/26/08
 
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Yes,
yellow -spirit, green -celebrate, purple -diversity, red courage, blue quality
aqua - community and orange - joy. Don't see this in the rain of "people" :-)
Answer Date: 04:35pm 05/26/08
 
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It is not always that every time it rains we can witness this colorful rainbow in the sky. The prerequisite for rainbow formation is a brightly shining sun from one side and rain coming from the other direction.

When you look at a rainbow, you would see that the sun is behind you. There is a fixed critical angle where the light from the sun is reflected back to you. If there is a water droplet in the right place and at the time of a...
 
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Rainbows are optical and meteorological phenomena that cause a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They take the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch. More rarely, a secondary rainbow is seen, which is a second, fainter arc, outside the primary arc, with colours in the opposite order, that is, with violet on the outside and red on the inside.
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