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You can have refraction without dispersion, but you cannot have dispersion without refraction. Explain why

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Because dispersion is a property of refraction. A refractive medium is non-dispersive when waves of all frequencies pass at the same speed, otherwise there is a dispersion that is causing a distortion of waveforms.

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