So that's where we see that colour, which is reflected out of the raindrop," she said. A double rainbow was visible when there was a second reflection within a raindrop, so the colours were ...

This passage 2 is read by students to test their speaking skills: "When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light ...

Whilst rare, a reflection rainbow mainly occurs when the sun is ... Sunlight reflects off the surface of the water and through raindrops, but at a different angle to the direct beam of sunlight.

A rainbow is made during a process called refraction, where light bends inside a prism (in this case, the spherical raindrops ... you’ll see the reflection of the light in the form the optical ...

In the 13th century Robert Grossteste, who became Bishop of Lincoln, wrote a treatise on the rainbow, suggesting it was not reflection ... refracted through raindrops. So it was a continuous ...