Rainbows and sunsets are called "atmospheric optics". They can be caused by light being absorbed, reflected, scattered, refracted, or diffracted by particles in the atmosphere. Learn all about different atmospheric optics along with beautiful photographs in this website.

Concepts

absorption, diffraction, light, refraction, sunset

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Additional Tags

atmospheric optic, colors of light, scattering light, rainbow, reflection, scattering of light

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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