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English: * A vectorized version of Rainbow-diagram-ROYGBIV.PNG. Rainbow diagram showing the conventional arrangement of colours: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo and Violet. The colours shown do not necessarily correspond to actual wavelengths.
[50] [51] Shortly after, the fourth-order rainbow was photographed as well, [52] [53] and in 2014 the first ever pictures of the fifth-order (or quinary) rainbow were published. [54] The quinary rainbow lies partially in the gap between the primary and secondary rainbows and is far fainter than even the secondary.
The rainbow is depicted as an archer's bow in Hindu mythology. Indra, the god of thunder and war, uses the rainbow to shoot arrows of lightning. [11] In pre-Islamic Arabian mythology, the rainbow is the bow of a weather god, Quzaḥ, whose name survives in the Arabic word for rainbow, قوس قزح qaws Quzaḥ, "the bow of Quzaḥ".
ROYGBIV is an acronym for the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. When making an artificial rainbow, glass prism is used, but the colors of "ROY-G-BIV" are inverted to VIB-G-YOR".
James Randklev / Getty Images. Rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) has been called one of the most colorful trees in the world, with cinnamon bark that peels away to reveal a spectrum of ...
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Rainbow window decoration in Walthamstow, May 2020. The rainbow was adopted as a symbol of hope during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially during periods of lockdown. Households worldwide displayed home-made images of rainbows in their windows, often alongside positive messages. [11] The rainbow has been a symbol of ethnic and racial diversity.