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What was the importance of isaac newton's light and prism experiment?​

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Issac Newton's light and prism experiment discovered that sunlight was made of 7 colors.

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  • Issac Newton's light and prism experiment was conducted to investigate the constituent colors in white light. In the experiment, Newton allowed sunlight to enter a glass prism. On entering the prism, the rays of sunlight split into 7 colors,violet, indigo,blue,green,yellow,orange and red(VIBGYOR).
  • After the color emerged out of the prism,a second glass prism was kept on its path in inverted position. After the colors entered the inverted prism, they were again converted into white light. The experiment concluded that sunlight was made up of 7 colors. Any light that has a spectrum as that of sunlight is termed as white light.
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