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Is the spectrum for the incandescent light a continuous spectrum or a line spectrum?

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incandescent bulb is equivalent to white light, i.e it has all the seven wavelengths of light. therefore when passed through a prism it is disperses into all the seven wavelengths WITHOUT ANY SPACES OR BOUNDARIES and are obtained on the screen as a CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM.

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