Which colour is missing in a rainbow?

Indigo has vanished, leaving three primary and three secondary colours. The Gay Pride flag eschews indigo in its representation of the rainbow.
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Which colors is missing in a rainbow?

The correct answer is Black.
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Is there no pink in the rainbow?

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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Why is purple not part of the rainbow?

There is no purple light in a rainbow. When white light splits through a prism or refracts as it passes through a raindrop, expanding in to bands of multicolored light, nothing purple comes out the other end.
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Why is brown not in the rainbow?

You know the answer to this - it's just because it's a composite color. Using the slightly more advanced technique of mixing colors to produce something outside the rainbow, I was able to reproduce a nice poopy brown with a simple mixture of red and green light.
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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. It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, of ash and of lead.
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Is GREY in the rainbow?

Yes, the rainbow has all the colors. No, there are obvious examples of colors not in the rainbow: brown, black, gray, periwinkle, etc..
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Is pink a real 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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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. They augment colors.
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Can human eyes see purple?

Purple is a mixture of colors, like white. If you mix blue light and red light, your eye will see purple, but in reality, it's just a mix of blue and red.
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Is Brown a real color?

brown, in physics, low-intensity light with a wavelength of about 600 nanometres in the visible spectrum. In art, brown is a colour between red and yellow and has low saturation. Brown is a basic colour term added to languages after black, white, red, yellow, green, and blue.
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Is orange in the rainbow?

The colours of the rainbow are: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
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Are there really 7 colors in the rainbow?

There are seven colors in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The acronym “ROY G. BIV” is a handy reminder for the color sequence that makes up the rainbow. Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton by Godfrey Kneller.
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Which Colour is not in vibgyor?

Refrences. Why Light(VIBGYOR) does not have white, brown or black colours? The black colour is just the absence of visible light. White colour is formed when all wavelengths of light are mixed.
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Which Colour is not used in any flag?

There are 196 countries in the world today and virtually none of them have purple on their national flag. So what's wrong with purple? After Skool explains how the color was worth more than gold.
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Is gold a color?

Gold, also called golden, is a color. The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold" (shown below).
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Is blood blue in your body?

It's red because of the red blood cells (hemoglobin). Blood does change color somewhat as oxygen is absorbed and replenished. But it doesn't change from red to blue. It changes from red to dark red.
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Is white every color?

White light is a combination of all colors in the color spectrum. It has all the colors of the rainbow. Combining primary colors of light like red, blue, and green creates secondary colors: yellow, cyan, and magenta. All other colors can be broken down into different combinations of the three primary colors.
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Why do girls like pink?

Girls like pink: It's encoded in their genes

According to a study published in Current Biology, women are biologically programmed to like the colour pink more than men, and the reason can be traced right back to prehistoric times!
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Is your brain pink?

The human brain color physically appears to be white, black, and red-pinkish while it is alive and pulsating. Images of pink brains are relative to its actual state. The brains we see in movies are detached from the blood and oxygen flow result to exhibit white, gray, or have a yellow shadow.
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Is indigo blue or purple?

Indigo is a rich color between blue and violet on the visible spectrum, it's a dark purplish blue. Dark denim is indigo as is Indigo dye. It's a cool, deep color and also a natural one. True Indigo dye is extracted from tropical plants as a fermented leaf solution and mixed with lye, pressed into cakes and powdered.
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What is the first color?

The team of researchers discovered bright pink pigment in rocks taken from deep beneath the Sahara in Africa. The pigment was dated at 1.1 billion years old, making it the oldest color on geological record.
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What are the 12 colors in the rainbow?

The colors of the rainbow in order are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. You can remember them with the acronym Roy G Biv! At one point or another, we have all seen a rainbow. But, although they are fairly common occurrences, it is remarkable how little most people actually know about rainbows.
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