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Is the ultraviolet ray monochromatic or polychromatic?​

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In real world application Ultraviolet is not a color as it it can’t be seen by the human eye. It is a high frequency part of the Suns electromagnetic radiation. Even though UltraViolet sounds like a color, the Ultra in this case signifies that it is beyond Violet and thus beyond the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are not depicted with a color on spectrum charts, since we can’t see it we can’t truly classify it as a color no more than can we equate the other parts of the spectrum like XRays, Gamma Rays and Radio Waves with colors. These and other non-visible parts of the spectrum are measured instead with wavelengths. So the answer is no they would not be monochromatic, or any color at all.

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet are the visible colors of the electromagnetic spectrum. They, combined together are called white light and our atmosphere acts like a prism to divide them into separate and apparently distinct colors. Outside the visible Red you have Infrared which is invisible to the human eye and is the heat we feel from the sun. Outside the Violet end of the visible spectrum is where UVA, UVB and UVC are found, and these are the eye and skin damaging rays. UV rays are also invisible to the human eye (but visible to certain birds of prey such as raptors

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