To show that light is made up of colours through diffraction.
A prism is a 3d shape that is the same 2d shape all the way along. Many things are shaped as prisms. for example a glass triangular prism can be used to reflect or defract light in telescopes or to produce coloured light.
The term angle of deviation is used in reference to a prism.
prism of quartz
The answer depends on the quality of the material used for the prism.
glass prism re used 4 physics practicals
I like to look at the prism.The light prism fascinates me.
A box
A prism cannot be used to name an ordered pair.
I believe that you are talking about a prism, and the process where the light is broken up in to its constituent parts is called dispersion
they prism glints off from the sun causing a spectaculer rainbow
A house can look like a pentagonal prism, they aren't really used for anything (Well what can you imagine?). Hope it helped ;)
A prism
The answer depends mainly on the plane which is used to divide the prism.The result can be a rectangular prism (or a cube), a trapezoidal prism, a triangular prism, but to get really exotic shapes the cutting plane needs to be not parallel to any of the faces or diagonals of the prism.