Light of primary rainbow arc is 96 % polarised tangential to the arch.
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It appears about 10?outside of the primary rainbow, with inverse order of colours.
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The sky inside a primary rainbow is brighter than the sky outside of the bow.
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In a primary rainbow, the arc shows red on the outer part and violet on the inner side.
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However, light that reflects once off the backs of raindrops becomes eligible to be part of a primary rainbow.
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Due to this angle, blue is seen on the inside of the arc of the primary rainbow, and red on the outside.
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In the late 13th century and early 14th century, Kaml al-D + n al-Fris + and Theodoric of Freiberg were the first to give the correct explanations for the primary rainbow phenomenon.
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Within the " primary rainbow " ( the lowest, and also normally the brightest rainbow ) the arc of a rainbow shows red on the outer ( or upper ) part of the arc, and violet on the inner section.
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The reason for this dark band is that, while light " below " the primary rainbow comes from droplet reflection, and light " above " the upper ( secondary ) rainbow also comes from droplet reflection, there is no mechanism for the region " between " a double rainbow to show any light reflected from water drops, at all.
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He explained the primary rainbow, noting that " when sunlight falls on individual drops of moisture, the rays undergo two refractions ( upon ingress and egress ) and one reflection ( at the back of the drop ) before transmission into the eye of the observer . " He explained the secondary rainbow through a similar analysis involving two refractions and two reflections.