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Grade 11General Physics

What is a spectrum ?

Profile image of Pavankumar . D
14 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of nikhil roy
14 Years ago
when you pass white light through a prism,it gets separated into its components namely violet,blue green,yelloe,orange and red.These lights of different wavelenghts can be seen with the help of a photographic plate.This is called spectrum.