{"id":7165,"date":"2013-02-14T21:01:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2013-02-14T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T05:54:08","slug":"iridescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7165","title":{"rendered":"Iridescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iridescent colours arise in a different manner than most of the colours we see. Flowers, paints, clothing, and cat fur show colours from selective absorption. Some wavelengths (colours) are absorbed while others are reflected. The colours formed by iridescence arise from wave interference. Some wavelengths undergo mutual cancelation while others become reinforced.<\/p>\n<p>When iridescence is seen, it usually appears on a fairly small scale: beetle wings, butterfly wings, hummingbird gorgets, duck feathers. But, when it comes to iridescence in the sky, it can be grand indeed. The nicest iridescence is usually seen in wave clouds near the Sun. I saw some today.<\/p>\n<p>Iridescence in a wave cloud was seen today from the parking lot of the Nelson &amp; District Community Complex.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7166\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/iridescence130214s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Iridescent colours arise in a different manner than most of the colours we see. Flowers, paints, clothing, and cat fur show colours from selective absorption. Some wavelengths (colours) are absorbed while others are reflected. The colours formed by iridescence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7169,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/7169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}