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1. A rainbow is caused by sunlight being refracted and reflected by water droplets in the air, causing the sunlight to separate into visible colors. 2. For a rainbow to be seen, the sun must be behind the observer, with the center of the rainbow arc in the opposite direction of the sun. 3. Rene Descartes first explained rainbow formation in 1637 by studying how light refracts and reflects when passing through a single water droplet. He determined that the minimum angular deviation for red light is 42 degre
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