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It is split/dispersed further for exactly the same reasons as one prism splits white light.

Isaac newton's classic experiment conducted during the plague year of 1665 in England was arranged as follows

He closed the wooden shutters in a room during a sunny day and made a hole in the shutters to allow a shaft of sunlight to enter the darkened room. On a pedestal in the centre of the room he arranged a glass prism to refract the white sunlight into a spectrum of colours which were displayed on the whitewashed wall. He then blocked all the other colours except red light emitted from the first prism by using a sheet of wood. The red light from the first prism was then directed towards a second glass prism to see if more colours or white light would be generated. He found that the red light was further refracted and no other colours were produced. He thus determined that sunlight was composed of the 7 colours of the spectrum. It is not at all easy to take a spectrum and recombine it through a prism to make white light. It can be done by mixing red,blue,and green light from separate pure light sources of these colours. This is how colour television works and is called additive mixing .This is different to mixing paint pigments together, this is called subtractive mixing.

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