Multiple Choice
Isaac Newton's prism experiment showed that when a beam of white light passes through a prism, the prism
A) adds color to the light.
B) subtracts from the light to allow the previously masked colors to appear.
C) changes the white light into something completely different so that it could not be reformed into white light.
D) causes different colors in the white light to be emitted in different directions.
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