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3. Does the Sun's light that reaches Earth produce a true continuous rainbow? If not, what colors

would you expect our sun's light to be missing if the outer atmosphere is pure Hydrogen?

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Answer:

when there is no water in the atmosphere or when no drops are formed there is no rainbow..

he hydrogen transition lines would be missing in the visible range, the RED region

Step-by-step explanation:

The sunlight that reaches the Earth is scattered by the atmosphere and radiated, as the atmosphere has mainly nitrogen, the radiated light is blue, this light does not produce a rainbow.

The sunlight must reach a drop of water that disperses the colors according to the refractive index of the water and in this way produces a rainbow, so when there is no water in the atmosphere or when no drops are formed there is no rainbow..

If the atmosphere were composed of Hydrogen, the hydrogen transition lines would be missing in the visible range, this corresponds to the so-called Balmer series and they are in the RED light region.

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