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Passing white light through a prism to form a spectrum demonstrates which phenomenon?
AReflection
BPolarization
CDispersion
DDiffraction
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Dispersion
Different colours travel at different speeds in glass, so they bend by different amounts and spread out.
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