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Prisms and a Spectrum

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(a) When a beam of white light passes through a glass prism, the light is separated
or refracted into a rainbow-colored band called a spectrum. The numbers on the right side of the spectrum indicate
wavelengths in nanometers (1 nm = 10-9 m).
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