Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
English: Refraction and reflection in a raindrop, producing a rainbow. White light separates into different colours (wavelengths) on entering the raindrop, as red light is refracted by a lesser angle than blue light. On leaving the raindrop, the red rays have turned through a smaller angle than the blue rays, producing a rainbow.
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".
The Rainbow Goblins. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-27759-1. Graham, Lanier F., ed. (1976). The Rainbow Book. Berkeley, California: Shambhala Publications and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (Large format handbook for the Summer 1976 exhibition The Rainbow Art Show which took place primarily at the De Young Museum but also at other ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, ...
A “rainbow baby” is a term used to describe children born after a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death, like a rainbow at the end of a storm. ... The funniest wildlife photos of the year ...
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".
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!