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An optical prism can be used to disperse light from the sun's spectrum into all of its constituent colors. It is the same concept that gives rise to the phenomenon of rainbows.

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What tools can be used to break up white light?

Breaking of white lights means dispersion of light in which the white light or the visible light splits into 7 colors. Many tools may be used to break up the white light but among them one of them is Prism. It can break up the white lights into 7 colors. Keep a white paper in front of the prism and the prism in the sun due to which the sunlight coming from the sun passes through the prism and the white breaks up into 7 colors due to change in velocity of the different invisible lights inside the white or the visible light. Other tools like plastic scale or ruler also can be used to break up the white light. Thank you


What colour attracts the sun?

Colors do not "attract" heat. The heat is already present in the light around the area. The color either absorbs or reflects the light. Black absorbs the most. White reflects the most. The darker the color is, the more light/heat it absorbs.


Why do rainbows form?

After the rain, small water particles are dispersed in the air. As the sunlight (white light) consists of seven colors, so when it passes through the water droplets, they are split up into there constituents according to the velocities of color. In this way a rainbow is formed.


Which color water evaporates the fastest?

If your talking in color such as dark colors and light colors, i would say dark colors. I did this experiment once and the darker water evaporated faster in sunlight because dark colors absorb alot of the suns rays. This also depends where you put the water. If you put it outside, dark water evaporates faster, inside is clear water. Also the temperature


Do you think photodegradable plastic that is buried in a landfill will break down quickly why or why not?

No it won't a because photodegradable means it will break down if exposed to sunlight, but since it is in a land fill there won't be much exposure to the sun, so that means it will slowly break down in the land fill.

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Sunlight tot shine through rain drops and break up into its many colors?

When sunlight shines through raindrops, a rainbow may be the result.


How can a prism break up sunlight into different colours?

A prism can break up sunlight into different colors through the process of dispersion. When sunlight enters a prism, it is refracted at different angles depending on the wavelength of each color in the visible spectrum. This separation of colors creates a rainbow effect, with each color appearing at a different position as it exits the prism.


When sunlight is passed through a glass prism it breaks up into different colors when these colors are passed through a reverse prism they form white light this shows that?

sunlight contains all colors.


What do scientists use to break up the suns light into spectrum?

Scientists use a prism or a diffraction grating to break up the sun's light into a spectrum. These tools can separate light into its component colors, allowing scientists to study the different wavelengths present in sunlight.


Is sunlight colorless?

Sunlight appears colorless to the human eye, but it is actually made up of all the colors of the spectrum. This is why when sunlight passes through a prism or rain droplets, it gets refracted and we see different colors.


How can you break up sunlight into a spectrum?

Of course. That's where the rainbow comes from.


What are the colours that make up a sunlight?

Sunlight appears white to the human eye, but it is actually made up of various colors in the visible spectrum, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. These colors are a result of sunlight being made up of a mixture of different wavelengths of light.


WHY DO rainbows have colours for kids?

Rainbows have colors because sunlight is made up of different colors of light. When sunlight passes through raindrops, it gets refracted and reflects inside the raindrop, separating the light into its different colors. This creates the spectrum of colors that we see in a rainbow.


Why did Justin break up with his vampire girlfriend on wizards of Waverly place?

He didn't break up with her. He let the zombie take her to protect her from the sunlight.


Who first studied component colors of sunlight?

Isaac Newton is credited with first studying the component colors of sunlight through his experiments with prisms in the 17th century. He demonstrated that sunlight is composed of different colors that can be separated and recombined to form white light.


Why do rainbows have 7 colors?

Rainbows have seven colors because sunlight is made up of different colors of light, each with a different wavelength. When sunlight passes through raindrops, it is refracted and dispersed into its different colors, creating the seven colors of the visible spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet) that make up a rainbow.


Does all colors absorb the same amount of sunlight?

No, different colors absorb sunlight differently. Darker colors tend to absorb more sunlight and heat up faster, while lighter colors reflect more sunlight and stay cooler. This is why dark-colored objects, like black pavement, can get much hotter than light-colored objects, like white sand, under the same amount of sunlight.