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The beautiful phenomenon of the rainbow is a combination of dispersion, internal reflection and refraction of light. The rainbow appears in the sky after a rainfall. The water droplets act as small prisms. When sunlight enters the water droplets present in the atmosphere, they refract and disperse the incident Sunlight. Then, they reflect internally inside the droplet and finally again refract it. As a collective effect of all the phenomena, the seven coloured rainbow is observed.
Q. Which three major phenomena are responsible for rainbow ?

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The three major phenomena responsible for rainbow are dispersion, internal reflection and refraction of sunlight.
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