Degrees of Separation
Sun rays are a mixture of all the different colors that are visible within the light spectrum even though they look white. With this in mind, when a beam of sun ray enters a water droplet the component colors refract and exit the water at different angles.
Each ray has a different wavelength where the longest belongs to the red light while the shortest is the purples.
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