Newton used prisms to? A. Support Descartes thought that color was secondary B.

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Newton used prisms to? A. Support Descartes thought that color was secondary B. Show that light was composed of different colored rays C. Prove that white light contained no colors except white D. None of these Newton used prisms to? A. Support Descartes thought that color was secondary B. Show that light was composed of different colored rays C. Prove that white light contained no colors except white D. None of these A. Support Descartes thought that color was secondary B. Show that light was composed of different colored rays C. Prove that white light contained no colors except white D. None of these

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B. Show that light was composed of different colored rays

Sir Newton was sure that all the different coloured rays he saw in nature were present in the sunlight. for which he experimented by placing prism in the path of sunlight which showed that white light of sunlight actually consists of different coloured rays combined together. to confirm he further added another prism in the path of dispersed sunlight rays which once again took the form of white light .

for this certainity that sunlight is actually consisting of different cloured rays he used prism.

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