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GRAND RAPIDS — Every day we see and use light for numerous daily functions, but did you know you can actually bend light? Its called refraction and our experiment today is going to show you how its ...
OBSERVATIONS of the green flash have frequently been recorded in NATURE, and Lord Rayleigh 1, by simple and beautiful experiments with an artificial source of light and a prism the dispersion of which ...
"The colors of the spectrum, then, "are not Qualifications [alterations] of Light … (as 'tis generally believed), but Original and connate properties." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
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