Editing Rainbow flag (section)

{{Short description|Flag with the colors of the rainbow}}
{{about|rainbow colors in miscellaneous flags|the LGBTQ pride flag|Rainbow flag (LGBTQ)}}
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[[File:Classic Rainbow Flag.svg|thumb|250px|Illustration of a flag using prism and non-prism rainbow colors]]
A '''rainbow flag''' is a multicolored [[flag]] consisting of the colors of the [[rainbow]]. The designs differ, but many of the colors are based on the seven [[spectral color]]s of the [[visible light spectrum]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Alvarez|first1=José Antonio Pozas|title=Why Does the Rainbow have 7 Colors?|url=https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/why-does-the-rainbow-have-7-colors/|website=OpenMind|date=7 August 2018|access-date=30 May 2019|archive-date=1 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401071116/https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/why-does-the-rainbow-have-7-colors/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The mathematical colors of the rainbow using HSL|url=http://www.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/cis/hsl_rainbow.html|website=[[College of Micronesia-FSM]]|access-date=30 May 2019|archive-date=25 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725170424/http://www.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/cis/hsl_rainbow.html|url-status=live}}</ref>