The 7th colour of the rainbow?

[amf]

One thing that has been bothering me for a while now. This part from Om Regnbågen Materialiserades: "Jag välkomnar dig, sjufärgade dynasti" (I welcome you, seven-coloured dynasty). I only count six colours.

1. Purple
2. Blue
3. Green
4. Yellow
5. Orange
6. Red


What am I missing, which is the seventh colour?


Guesses:
Between blue and green counts are turquoise.
or
Purple counts as two, since it appears two times.

 

[Seems like Trav]

Indigo

 

[DragonKeeper]

^ yup

 

[Thidrek]

plus ultraviolet, plus infrared = 9 colors

 

[Disgustipated]

+ amberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... like the coulour o fbeed... beer.. .cos.. ebr i good.

 

[The_Children_of_Decadence]

One thing that has been bothering me for a while now. This part from Om Regnbågen Materialiserades: "Jag välkomnar dig, sjufärgade dynasti" (I welcome you, seven-coloured dynasty). I only count six colours.

1. Purple
2. Blue
3. Green
4. Yellow
5. Orange
6. Red


What am I missing, which is the seventh colour?


Guesses:
Between blue and green counts are turquoise.
or
Purple counts as two, since it appears two times.

black

 

[--]

they tell us in school Roy G. Biv (like a person's name) to memorize the order.

 

[DragonKeeper]

plus ultraviolet, plus infrared = 9 colors

ok, if you want to get that technical, yes haha
black is the absence of color

 

[svältvinter]

One thing that has been bothering me for a while now. This part from Om Regnbågen Materialiserades: "Jag välkomnar dig, sjufärgade dynasti" (I welcome you, seven-coloured dynasty). I only count six colours.

1. Purple
2. Blue
3. Green
4. Yellow
5. Orange
6. Red


What am I missing, which is the seventh colour?


Guesses:
Between blue and green counts are .
or
Purple counts as two, since it appears two times.

Turquoise is the last one! Indigo whould almost be counted as blue i think! Otherwise its millions!

 

[Thidrek]

impossible because turquoise (tricky word...) is a mjxture between blue and green.

 

[ThornsOfSorrow]

It's indigo. Like -- said, the colors of the rainbow can be remembered like "ROYGBIV". I was taught that too.

 

[Braighs]

Indigo is a myth created by Christians who feel safer living in a world of 7's instead of 6's.

You have 3 primary colors: Red, Yellow, Blue
which combine to make 3 more secondary colors: Orange, Green, Violet.
Where does Indigo fit in this?

 

[månsken]

it dosn't. but are there 7 colors. because i don't have a clue about that, and how dose indigo look like (the color)?

 

[Thidrek]

use google picture search

 

[Isotope]

plus ultraviolet, plus infrared = 9 colors

These don't fit in here! Our eyes don't pick them up, the wavelengths are too short on UV and too long on Infrared. I geuss, the rainbow has as many colors as you can pick out and visibly see when it is refracted, depending on the type of light, so on. I assume sunlight is what fits in here., but the accepted number is 7, that ROY G BIV thing. Sir Isaac Newton said 7 most likely because he was big into numerology and 7 is a very "special" number, like there are 7 days in the week, 7 seas, 7 holes in our head, etc. In Viking runology, in the Viking Uthark 7 was a number of perfection, and represnted things like say the 7th heaven, etc.

Hope this helps some

 

[Thidrek]

Yeah, in the christian belief 7 is the number of god and because of that there are that many sevens in the western world. In fairy tales there the 7 appears quite often as for example in "the 7 ravens" or in "the 7 dwarfs" or "seven-league boots".

 

[Mantilla]

according to my studies the solar spectrum contains 7 colors;
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet....

..indigo is not a blue or a kind of pruple/violet, here in my country people call it "añil"

 

[thruldom]

The Eighth colour according to Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is Octarine, the colour of magic. ;D

Unfortunately it's only so at the Discworld.

 

[Thidrek]

NO! THAT'S TRUE!

 

[DragonKeeper]

what about imagination?