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Q: What is it called when light passes through and it separates into the different colors of the rainbow?
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When you look at white light through a glass prism you see a rainbow of color called?

light is white. if you mix the colors of the rainbow you get white. A prism separates the colors, showing a rainbow.


A prism separates white light into different colors through a process called?

refraction


The boundary that separates different air masses is called a?

Front


What is the effect in which white light separates into different colors called?

Dispersion


Why could lo be called the rainbow moon?

because it has different coulors


What is it called when light moves through water?

Nothing special. But when light travels from one medium to another (from air to water for example) it is refracted. One answerer said a rainbow. A rainbow is caused by the different wavelengths (colors) of light are refracted at slightly different angles, so that we see different colors appearing at different positions.


The effect in which white light separates into different colors is called?

The splitting of white light into seven different constituent colours is called dispersion


The sun shining through droplets of moisture to create a spectrum is called?

rainbow


When light passes through a prism it is separated into the colors of the the rainbow called?

Visible Spectrum


The boundary that separates different air masses is called a(n)?

Is either a warm or cold front.


When you look at a white light through a glass prism you see a rainbow of colors what are the colors called?

it is called a phiness


What happens when white light separates?

The phenomenon of splitting of composite white light into its constituent colors is called as dispersion. So as white light gets separated we get VIBGYOR. The rainbow colours.