Rainbow

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky. The rainbow takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Rainbow”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Wing-Chi Poon, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.