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This is easy to do with a Prism, preferably a long triangular piece of glass. A glass of water can do the same thing, although not as accurate as a triangular shaped prism would.

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Q: How do you split white light into different colors?
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A block of glass that can split white light into different colors?

That is called a prism.


How can you filter light to create different colors?

Shining a white light through a glass prism will split the light into rainbow colours.


What would you use to split white light into colors?

If white light is shined through a prism, it will be dispersed into colors.


Why does the violet light split into different colors when it passes through the prism?

Violet light does not split into different colors when it passes through a prism.If it goes in violet, it comes out violet.White light is a combination of light of many colors. If you pass white light througha prism, a spread of different colors will come out of the prism, because each colorbends through a slightly different angle on its way through the prism.


Why do the colors split up in the spectrum?

White light can be split up into lots of different coloured light waves using a prism. We call this range of colours the visible spectrum.


A block of glass that can split white light into different colours?

A block of glass that can split white light into the many colors that it is comprised of is called a prism. The name comes from the traditional shape of the tool, which is a triangular prism.


Is a prism used to turn white light into black light?

No. It is used to split white light into its separate colors.


Why do the colors in the electromagnetic spectrum split up?

White light can be split up into lots of different coloured light waves using a prism. We call this range of colours the visible spectrum.


Why do colors combined make white?

That is not true. If you are talking about all the colours of light in the spectrum coming from white light that is true. When white light passes through a glass prism, it causes the light to split into different colours because of the different angles at which they refract.


How white light produced different colors?

White light doesn't produce different colors. The only way to make white light is tocombine light with all of the different colors. So if you already have white light, allof the colors are already there. You only have to separate them in order to see them.


How can you demonstrate to a friend that white light is made up of different colors?

There are two ways of doing this: 1) use a prism to split white light into different colors - see the related link below. 2) use a spinning disk to merge colors to make white - see the related link below.


What is the difference between white light and a spectrum?

the difference is that white light is a mixture of the seven spectrum colors but when refracted (separated by a transparent object) it splits again into seven colors striking at different angles that's why they look like one.one color above others.so the difference is that spectrum is a number of split colors striking at different angles but white light is the mixture of those colors.