It is important to point out that we are not so much interested in dispersive prisms that split a beam of white light into its spectrum of colors, although they make great album covers.

White light is made of a spectrum of different colours. Light can be split up into these separate colours using a prism. There are three primary colours of light, which can be combined to make ...

The natural muscle structure, composed of many thin fibres, acts like a prism, splitting the light into individual colours. The thinner the slices, the greater the chance of observing a rainbow ...