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$Diagram showing sunlight entering a water droplet, refracting, reflecting inside it, and emerging as separated red-to-violet light. Rays reaching an observer at about 42 degrees for red and 40 degrees for violet form a rainbow opposite the sun.$

functions of a prism

$refractive indices and dispersive powers$

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pulse spreading waveguide dispersion normal dispersion multimode dispersion material dispersion dispersive power dispersion relation anomalous dispersion spectrum Aureole chemical bonding nuclear fission catalysis nuclear fusion deformation and flow friction diffusion work absorption adsorption

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Hendrik Anthony Kramers

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