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We see different colours of light because of their different frequencies. White light is actually lots of different frequencies, you see a spectrum because when light diffracts (slows down and changes direction) each frequency diffracts by a different amount, some bend more than others. Because blue light is only one frequency it will not produce a spectrum, so all the light bends by the same ammount.

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Q: When white light lite is dispersed by a prism a spectrum is obtained on a screen if you pass a beam of pure blue light through a prism what would you see on the screen?
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