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Why Do Some Clouds Have a Rainbow Hue?
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[QUOTE="ProfuselyQuarky, post: 5486315, member: 586985"] Unlike the water in a glass or swimming pool, clouds are not contiguous bodies of water. Rather, they are more like millions a water droplets scattered throughout with air in between. Whenever light passes through each of the individual droplets (which, of course, it does), the light is scattered and refracted--but only for a short distance because the refracted light will eventually hit another droplet. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that photons that find themselves in clouds are constantly changing directions and the wavelengths of the light waves become so scattered that a cloud is seen, rather than just being a clear mass. [/QUOTE]
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