How do double rainbows form? Scientists at University of California San Diego have explained that extra-large droplets, known as burgeroids because of their burger-like shape, have the effect of creating a double rainbow. Burgeroids, all the way! This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Burgeroids”
A term that I came across in my reading lately is burgeroid.
Is that like a malady of the derriere?
No, no, no, no, no, Grant.
I don’t know.
Although that could be a possibility.
Maybe there’s a secondary definition.
But no, burgheroid is a term that is being promoted by scientists here at the University of California, San Diego.
They were studying how it is that double rainbows are formed.
You know, single rainbows are formed by light being refracted through droplets.
But what they figured out, as far as I can tell, is that when droplets get sort of fat and sort of burger-shaped, that’s when they end up forming these double rainbows.
And they call them burgheroids.
So because burger from hamburger, so they kind of have a hamburger shape.
And then oid, which is a suffix meaning having the shape of or the appearance of.
Exactly.
And I just love the term burgeroid.
I think we could apply it to lots of different things.
We could rhyme it with murgatroid in limericks.
I mean, it’s great.
I love it.
So burgeroids.
What have you found in your reading?
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