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There are different colors of visible light because

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We see different wavelengths of light as different colors because they are associated to different wavelength, which activates different cells in the retina.

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he wavelengths separate into the colors of the rainbow because each color is a different wavelength. Violet has the shortest wavelength, at around 380 nanometers, and red has the longest wavelength,

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