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Q: What are the colours produced by a prism called?
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Scientific name for colours of rainbow?

The range of color produced by a prism is called a spectrum.


A prism breaks white light into what?

A dispersive prism can break light into its spectral colours, or the colours of the rainbow


Shape tha produces spectrum of colours?

prism prism


When a light passes through a prism it spreads into a spectrum of colours what is spreading effect called?

dispersion


What is the name of the rainbow colors produced from a white light?

The name of the rainbow colours produced from a white light is called the spectrum.


You can use this object to split light into its colours?

A prism


When pure colours pass through a prism they?

oiuio


What devise can split white light into colours?

The device is a glass prism. A cross-section of a prism is an isosceles triangle.


What objects can break light into colours?

diffraction grating prism


How do we see different colors in a prism when it reflects?

this is called refraction. light is made up of seven different colours as seen in a rainbow. a glass prism breaks the light up into its base colours. this is the same principle a rainbow is made by only rainbow uses watere droplets to refract the light.


When light is spilt up into the colors of the rainbow its called?

refraction, do this by shining white light (all the colours) through a prism which then splits the wave lengths into sperate paths showing all the colours of white light. So white light has a specific frequency, shine it through a prism and you split the frequency up into smaller bits hence the colours of light.


What is a science instrument that bends light?

The science instrument is called Prism. It actually does not bend light. It separates the light into seven different colours.