It is important to point out that we are not so much interested in dispersive prisms that split a beam of white light into its spectrum of colors, although they make great album covers.

All surfaces of this little prism can be refracted, and it presents different at different angles in the same or different light environment Science education figurine - This beam splitter prism ...

White light is made of a spectrum of different colours. Light can be split up into these separate colours using a prism. There are three primary colours of light, which can be combined to make ...

or blue exist on the visible light spectrum — each corresponding to a specific wavelength of light. When sunlight passes through a prism or a raindrop, we see this spectrum in the form of a ...

A spectrometer is a pretty common lab instrument, useful for determining the absorbance of a sample across a spectrum of light. The standard design is simple; a prism or diffraction grating to ...