A shower of falling raindrops can spread out sunlight into its component colours, essentially acting as?

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1. A shower of falling raindrops can spread out sunlight into its component colours, essentially acting as?

A natural equivalent of a glass prism

A plane mirror

A magnifying convex lens

A diverging concave lens

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Each raindrop refracts and internally reflects sunlight much like a tiny prism does, dispersing white sunlight into the familiar rainbow of colours.