Our young folks [serial] . Now let us pay our respects to the suns light. Of course you all knowthat there are different kinds of light. You have seen the gorgeous colorsso often displayed in fireworks, and you have heard that they are producedby burning certain chemical substances. Now the suns light has its pecu-liarities, just as much as these. Let us see what the rainbow has to sayabout it. At certain times in the day, when the solar rays slant throughthe scattered drops of a retreating shower, the sky is arched by a bow of 92 What the Stars are made of. [February, seven colors, red, orang
Our young folks [serial] . Now let us pay our respects to the suns light. Of course you all knowthat there are different kinds of light. You have seen the gorgeous colorsso often displayed in fireworks, and you have heard that they are producedby burning certain chemical substances. Now the suns light has its pecu-liarities, just as much as these. Let us see what the rainbow has to sayabout it. At certain times in the day, when the solar rays slant throughthe scattered drops of a retreating shower, the sky is arched by a bow of 92 What the Stars are made of. [February, seven colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. If weallow common white light to pass through a triangular fragment of glass, —a prism as it is called, —we shall get the same colors in the form of a con-fused spot. The cut-glass pendants of a chandelier often produce suchspots upon the wall. But if the light be admitted to the prism through anarrow slit in the window-shutter, and after passing through the glass bemade to f
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