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When white light passes throught a prism, what can be discovered?

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a rainbow!

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Isaac Newton's 1666 experiment of bending white light through a prism demonstrated that all the colors already existed in the light, with different color "corpuscles" fanning out and traveling with different speeds through the prism.

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