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What is the proper name for a rainbow effect created by the splitting up of white light?
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The splitting of white light into a spectrum of colours is called dispersion.
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The splitting of white light (Polychromatic) through a prism shows many colours in a spectrum, this is also known as Monochromatic Light. The colours present would be:
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
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The proper name for the rainbow effect created by the splitting of white light is dispersion.
Dispersion occurs when light passes through a medium, like a prism, and is separated into its component colors (the spectrum), ranging from red to violet. This happens because different wavelengths of light are refracted (bent) by different amounts
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