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If you are talking about light and not pigment, then the blending of all the frequencies of visible light gives white. It's more of a continuum of frequencies rather than a mix of discrete colors.
White light has all visible frequencies incorporated in it. A prism refracts different frequencies at different angles so the different frequencies (colors) spread out.
White light is a mixture of different colors; so there are different frequencies.
Light can occur at different frequencies. These frequencies lie on a spectrum, if you want an idea of what the frequencies look like, have a look at a rainbow, with red at the lowest frequency and blue/violet at the highest for visible light. When all of these frequencies are mixed together (like the light created from the "white hot" sun) white light is the result.
Then each of the many different frequencies will have its own, and different, diffraction pattern.
If you are talking about light and not pigment, then the blending of all the frequencies of visible light gives white. It's more of a continuum of frequencies rather than a mix of discrete colors.
White light has all visible frequencies incorporated in it. A prism refracts different frequencies at different angles so the different frequencies (colors) spread out.
White light is a mixture of different colors; so there are different frequencies.
White light is a mixture of different frequencies, that are within the range of light our eyes can see.
Light can occur at different frequencies. These frequencies lie on a spectrum, if you want an idea of what the frequencies look like, have a look at a rainbow, with red at the lowest frequency and blue/violet at the highest for visible light. When all of these frequencies are mixed together (like the light created from the "white hot" sun) white light is the result.
white light
A mixture of all the visible frequencies.
the range of visible light.
Then each of the many different frequencies will have its own, and different, diffraction pattern.
White light is what we see when light of all (or most) of the frequencies in the visible spectrum are emitted together from the same source. It is the combination of every visible light wave.
This is just a guess, but i think it is because the color white is a mixture of frequncies of light ranging from red to violet, so if you look at the wave pattern, it will look like a complete mess. By contrast, a single colour will have a nice neat wave pattern. Therefore, i would assume that "white" is used as a metaphor for a wave which consists of a mixture of lots of different frequencies. White light is the combination of all visible frequencies of light, white noise is the combination of many (but not all) audible frequencies of sound.
light as it originates from the sun or a bulb before it is broken into different frequencies