Why is the Sky Blue (Chemistry). Life Sciences Research Paper

Why is the Sky Blue?
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Why is the Sky Blue?
The popular opinion that the sky is blue is often misunderstood. In the quest to eliminate this confusion, light is introduced into this discussion. Many regard the color of visible light as white, which is false. According to Isaac Newton’s demonstrations using a prism, light comprises of different colors. These colors in unison form the rainbow. This assertion implies that they have different wavelengths. Violet being the seventh color has the highest energy while the first color (red) has the least energy. On the other hand, red has the highest wavelength while violet has the lowest wavelength. The rest of the colors lie in between. With this in mind, it is necessary to proceed to what happens when sunlight penetrates the atmosphere.
Lord Raleigh developed the Raleigh scattering technique to offer a better explanation of why the sky is blue (Miles, Lempert, & Forkey, 2001). The first thing to note is that the atmosphere consists of both visible and invisible particles. The former category comprises dust and water while the latter is made up of nitrogen and oxygen articles. Sunlight is considered an electromagnetic wave that when it hits oxygen and nitrogen particles and their respective electrons and protons, they oscillate up and down through the atmosphere. In this process, the electromagnetic radiation produced exhumes a similar frequency as the incoming sunlight. However, the radiation is spread over all different directions. The process whereby air molecules redirect the incoming sunlight is referred to as scattering.
As mentioned earlier, the wavelengths of these colors...