| "Red and Yellow
and Pink and Green; Orange and Purple and Blue, I can sing a rainbow..." |
Except that Pink is not a colour of the rainbow. List 1 below lists the colours of the rainbow, as you would find them in most school texts.
| Red |
| Orange |
| Yellow |
| Green |
| Blue |
| Indigo |
| Violet |
Table 1 - Colours of the Rainbow.
Personally, I always felt that when Newton described the colours of the spectrum, he was pushing a bit to make it be 'lucky' seven - I've never been sure that I can distinguish Indigo from Violet in the rainbow or in a spectrum from a prism.
Some common mnemonics for the colours of the rainbow:
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Table 2 - Rainbow mnemonics
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