Joachim and Maricella are going for a romantic walk in the park after an afternoon storm. Maricella looks up in the sky and sees a rainbow. She exclaims, "How beautiful!" Joachim, being something of a science buff, might correctly say,
A) "You are just seeing the visible spectrum."
B) "That's because you are seeing all the wavelengths of light we can see from short to long."
C) "That's because different wavelengths lead to the perception of different colors."
D) "That's because the visible spectrum ranges from red to violet wavelengths of light."
E) All of these things would be correct.

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All the statements A through D are correct explanations of the phenomenon of a rainbow, which involves the dispersion of light into its constituent wavelengths, visible as different colors.

Joachim and Maricella Are Going for a Romantic Walk in the Park