Multiple Choice
A particular spectrograph,used by an astronomer to disperse light into its colors,contains a piece of glass that has been ruled with thousands of closely spaced,parallel lines.What is this piece of glass called?
A) an interferometer
B) a CCD array
C) a diffraction grating
D) a prism
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