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Why is the sky blue. Why is the sky blue?


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A cloudless sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light waves from the sun more than they scatter red light waves.

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Blue skys are due to Rayleigh scattering. light moves through the atmosphere, the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Chacha

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The sky appears blue to us on a clear day, because the atoms of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere separate the sun's light.

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The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering.Please text again soon!

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The white light from the sun is a mixture of all colours of the rainbow. The retina of the human eye picks up blue the strongest.

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The sky is blue because of the way the Earth's atmosphere scatters light from the sun. ChaCha on!

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