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What Do You Mean by Spectrum?

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What do you mean by spectrum?
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The colour band obtained on a screen on passing white light through a prism is called the spectrum.
 
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Chapter 2: Light - Exercise 2.3 ii [Page 110]

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Frank Physics Part 2 [English] Class 10 ICSE
Chapter 2 Light
Exercise 2.3 ii | Q 1 | Page 110

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