{"id":539,"date":"2014-01-22T21:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=539"},"modified":"2014-01-24T01:05:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T06:05:45","slug":"oil-film-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/01\/22\/oil-film-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Film Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As light passes through thin layers of oil on the surface of water the various colors separate and we see a rainbow or the colors of the rainbow.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_538\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rainbow-oil-on-water.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-538\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rainbow-oil-on-water.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of he colors of the rainbow produced by light passing through a thin layer of oil on water.\" width=\"550\" height=\"324\" class=\"size-full wp-image-538\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rainbow-oil-on-water.jpg 550w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rainbow-oil-on-water-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The colors of the rainbow produced by light passing through a thin layer of oil on water.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The colors are caused by interference between light reflected from the top and bottom of the oil film.<\/p>\n<p>I just thought it looked cool when I took this picture, but for those who want more explanation here are some links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hk-phy.org\/iq\/oil_rainbow\/oil_rainbow_e.html\" title=\"Why do rainbow-like colors appear on the surface of oil?\" target=\"_blank\">Why do rainbow-like colors appear on the surface of oil?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/HTML\/questions\/question\/1708\/\" title=\"Why does petrol and oil make a rainbow effect on water?\" target=\"_blank\">Why does petrol and oil make a rainbow effect on water ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As light passes through thin layers of oil on the surface of water the various colors separate and we see a rainbow or the colors of the rainbow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}