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So, when the visible light passes through the prim and refracts on it's edges, the beam of light splits into a spectrum and it looks like a rainbow, only because white light is acctually all of the colors of light put together.

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A "Spectrum" is produced. ~ aaarg

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Different colors are observed when sunlight passes through a prism. Prisms separate the different colors into a rainbow for the viewer.

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When sun light falls on a prism then it gets split into its constituent colours. This phenomenon is known as DISPERSION

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separates the colors into a spectrum

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continuous spectrum

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Bright spots or lines.

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