Is rainbow pink yes or no?

To put it simply, pink is not in the rainbow because violet and red are at opposite ends. The color pink is created from mixing red and violet; therefore, pink can't exist because red and violet don't meet within the rainbow.
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Can the rainbow be pink?

In a blog post, Robert Krulwich of the public radio show Radiolab noted that there is no pink in the colors of the rainbow. Pink is actually a combination of red and violet, two colors, which, if you look at a rainbow, are on the opposite sides of the arc.
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Is rainbow a color yes or no?

A rainbow shows up as a spectrum of light: a band of familiar colors that include red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The name "Roy G. Biv" is an easy way to remember the colors of the rainbow, and the order in which they appear: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
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Why is the rainbow not pink?

Purple, magenta, and hot pink, as we know, don't occur in the rainbow from a prism because they can only be made as a combination of red and blue light. And those are on opposite sides of the rainbow, nowhere near overlapping. So there is no purple or hot pink in the rainbow from a prism.
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What is rainbow real Colour?

The colours of the rainbow are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
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What are the 7 colors of rainbow?

The colours of the rainbow are: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
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What are the 12 rainbow colors?

G. BIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), the mnemonic that helped you to memorize the order and colors of the rainbow? Well, you can forget it because as it turns out, not all rainbows are equal. They can vary drastically depending on the conditions under which they occur.
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Is pink a real color?

Pink is real—or it is not—but it is just as real or not-real as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The reddish green question will have to wait for another day. Photo by jonner on Flickr.
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What is a pink rainbow?

'Rainbows witnessed at dawn and dusk can, on occasion, be pink because of the low sun angle at that time of day,' said BBC Weather expert Lan Boutland. An optical illusion is caused by colours at the red end of the spectrum being refracted, making the rainbow appear pink.
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Is pink a girl color?

The short answer is no. Pastel colors for baby clothing—including blue and pink—were introduced in the mid-19th century, and they didn't become sex-specific colors until the 20th century. A couple of different aspects affected the ultimate designation of pink for girls.
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Is black a color?

And many do consider black to be a color, because you combine other pigments to create it on paper. But in a technical sense, black and white are not colors, they're shades.
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What color is the number 7?

7. Violet: Also an old soul. Intense, cerebral, wise, loving, generous, sentimental, and artistic.
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Do rainbows have black?

Red is a rainbow color. Green sits next to blue. And there's no BLACK in rainbows.
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Why pink is not a color?

If colours were simply a naming scheme for wavelengths then pink is not one, because it is made up of more than one wavelength (it's actually a mix of red and purple light). If you took a laser and tuned it across the visible wavelengths, from infrared through to ultraviolet, you would not pass pink on the way.
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What kind of color is pink?

Pink is a combination of the color red and white, a hue that can be described as a tint. It can range from berry (blue-based) pinks to salmon (orange-based) pinks.
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Is pink red?

Although pink is generally considered a tint of red, the colors of most tints of pink are slightly bluish, and lie between red and magenta. A few variations of pink, such as salmon color, lean toward orange.
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Why are rainbows red?

They're created for much the same reason that a sunset or sunrise looks red. When the sun is low, its blue and green light is weakened by scattering during the long journey to your eyes through Earth's atmosphere. The red light travels through more directly. Voila … a red rainbow.
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What is the rarest sky Colour?

But among all the hues found in rocks, plants and flowers, or in the fur, feathers, scales and skin of animals, blue is surprisingly scarce. But why is the color blue so rare? The answer stems from the chemistry and physics of how colors are produced — and how we see them. Related: Why is the sky blue?
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Where should pink go in the rainbow?

Since pink is not in a traditional rainbow, it can be tricky to place in the color wheel. Think of your pinks as rosy pinks (cool pinks, above left) and peachy pinks (warm pinks, above right). Rosy pinks should go between purple and red, while peachy pinks are best between red and orange.
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Is GREY a color?

Grey (British English) or gray (American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed of black and white.
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Is purple a fake color?

The colour purple does not exist in the real world. Apparently it's true. A rainbow of light from red to violet floods our surroundings, but there is no such thing as purple light. Purple only exists in our heads.
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What color isn't real?

If color is solely the way physics describes it, the visible spectrum of light waves, then black and white are outcasts and don't count as true, physical colors. Colors like white and pink are not present in the spectrum because they are the result of our eyes' mixing wavelengths of light.
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Are rainbows rare?

But in truth, there are all sorts of rainbows—some rarer than others. Each type of rainbow is created under different circumstances and falls either into primary or secondary types. Read on to find out more about the different types of rainbows.
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What is a ghost rainbow?

A fogbow, or white rainbow

Fogbows are sometimes called white rainbows, or cloudbows or ghost rainbows. They're made much as rainbows are, from the same configuration of sunlight and moisture. Rainbows happen when the air is filled with raindrops. You always see a rainbow in the direction opposite the sun.
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What color is a Moonbow?

Just like daytime rainbows, moonbows need the light from the moon to be reflected and refracted by water droplets at a certain angle to create a rainbow. Rather than seeing the full spectrum of colours, moonbows often appear to be white to the human eye.
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