Did someone tell you rainbows contain all the colors? Well, that’s not true! It is missing a whopping 28% of colors!🌈

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No it does not. The rainbow has all wavelength within the visible spectrum. But not all colors. And yes, color is based on perception.

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Yoy can filter out frequencies in the rainbow spectra in a way that it looks like any color…

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You can do that with white light, but not in the rainbow, because the wavelengths are spatially already separated. So you would also have to combine them again.

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True it is…

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