When white light passes through an optical prism, it is dispersed into lights of different colours. The reason is that light is formed of multiple waves and when they pass through the sides of the prism they are refracted in different ways following the laws of reflexion and refraction. We say that light is dispersed when it passes through an optical prism.

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