10th Class Science Human Eye and Colourful World

  • question_answer 39)
      Why do we see a rainbow in the sky only after rainfall?

    Answer:

                      We see a rainbow in the sky only after rainfall due to dispersion of sunlight by tiny water droplets, present in the atmosphere due to rainfall. The water droplets act like small prisms, they refract and disperse the incident sunlight, then reflect it internally and finally refract it again when it comes out of the raindrop and hence due to dispersion of light and internal reflection, rainbow formation takes place during rainfall.


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