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Visible spectrum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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When white light shines through a prism, the white light is broken apart into the colors of the visible light spectrum. Water vapor in the atmosphere can also break apart wavelengths creating a rainbow.
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This site is intended for students age 14 and up, and for anyone interested in learning about our universe. ... Radio waves, visible light, X-rays, and all the other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are fundamentally the same thing, electromagnetic radiation.
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The Spectrum of Visible Light ... Thus we see that visible light and gamma rays and microwaves are really the same things. They are all electromagnetic radiation; they just differ in their wavelengths. ... The visible spectrum...
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Encyclopedia article about Visible light spectrum. Information about Visible light spectrum in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... Users save time with a one-step calibration of the full spectrum, and the complete visible light spectrum, 380-950 nm, can be collected in a...
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VISIBLE LIGHT The portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that can be detected by the human eye. It travels at the same speed as all other radiation, that is at 186,000 mile per second. It has a wave length longer than ultraviolet light and shorter than x-rays.
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