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what are the conditions to observe a rainbow?????

After heavy rain, water droplets gets suspended in air. Each water droplets acts as a tiny prism. When sunlight falls on these droplets, causing dispersion of light and reflects it back to our eye, which leads to the formation of rainbow.

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1 sunlight
2 suspended water droplets in the atmosphere
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:  After a rain shower, the tiny droplets of water act as tiny prisms and cause dispersion of sunlight. Due to this dispersion rainbow is forms. It is the beautiful example of dispersion of white light in nature after a rain shower. A rainbow always forms in the direction opposite to the sun. The essential condition for observing a rainbow is that the observer must stand with his back towards the sun.
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