How to make a rainbow?

What can be more beautiful and more fantastic than a rainbow? Only a rainbow created by own hands. The easiest way to make a rainbow is to let light through the prism. But the prism is not always at hand, and you really want to experiment with the rainbow.

There are several ways to make a rainbow at home from improvised tools, let's look at a few of them.

Rainbow from the disk

This is a very simple way to get a rainbow froman object that today is almost in every house - a compact disc. The CD is suitable for any CDDVDBlueray enough to reflect from it the sunlight and a beautiful rainbow will play on the white wall.

Rainbow from the water

To do this, you need to pass light through the water. For example, you can put a glass of water on a window sill on a sunny day and light, passing through the water, will create a rainbow. If this does not work, you can take a mirror and put it in a glass of water and try to reflect the sunlight.

You can also take a shallow shallow container andat an angle to put a mirror in it so that one half was above the water and reflect the sunlight on the white surface. The rainbow will immediately appear. The larger the water tank and the mirror, the larger the rainbow.

If the sky is clouded and the sun is not at allIt shines, a rainbow can be done in the same ways using a flashlight. But such a rainbow will not be so bright, so you'll have to tightly curtain the curtains and even then start the experiments.

Well, if the sun shines brightly, there is one moreThe correct way to make a rainbow. But for him it is necessary to go out and find a hose connected to a tap with water. Now it remains to squeeze the end of the hose so that the water comes out of it finely spraying, and send it upward in the sun. In the spray of water the rainbow will play.