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"describe what happens to whitelight when it passes through a glass prism and explain why."​

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As light passes through a prism, it is bent, or refracted, by the angles and plane faces of the prism and each wavelength of light is refracted by a slightly different amount.

the light gets dispersed and there is a formation of a seven colours spectrum

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