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Different wavelengths refract at different angles when they pass through an interface (the meeting surface of two different media, or objects through which light passes) according to a variation of Snell's law. Because the light encounters two interfaces - one going in, one going out of the prism - it is refracted twice. The first refraction spearates the colours initially and the second spreads them even further apart.

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