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In 1801, Thomas Young performed a crucial experiment on the nature of light when he
A)   demonstrated the wave nature of light by passing light through two slits and obtaining a pattern of bright and dark bands on a screen that he correctly interpreted as interference between the two light beams.
B)   proved mathematically that light could be described by oscillating electric and magnetic fields.
C)   showed that light that passed through a prism had a spectrum of colors added to it by the prism.
D)   demonstrated that white light was made up of colors that could be split by a prism and that these colors were not produced by the glass through which the light passed.

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