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The red in a rainbow is on the outside. The way you can remember it is that there’s often a secondary fainter rainbow visible on the outside external to the primary rainbow with the colours reversed, and the ‘Reds’ are together. Last year, I visited a museum in Florence (actually an old mansion) which has a ceiling painting with a rainbow with the colours reversed. I took a photo of it and showed it to someone in my tour party, who thought that rainbows in the Northern Hemisphere might be the reverse of those in the Southern Hemisphere…
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