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What a prism is used for?

Updated: 9/17/2019
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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.

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