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Where do rainbows come from?

Nature volume 300, pages 547–548 (1982)Cite this article

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Peter Newmark looks at some of the science books for children recently published in Britain*.

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  1. The father of a six-, a nine-and a twelve-year-old, is Deputy Editor of Nature.

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Newmark, P. Where do rainbows come from?. Nature 300, 547–548 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/300547a0

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