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Rural School Leaflet 



Now, how does a little three-sided piece of glass sort the different colors 

 in a beam of sunlight ? You remember the light comes to us from the sun 

 in little waves, or ripples. The finest waves that we can see are violet 

 and the coarsest are red. When a beam of sunlight passes through a 

 glass prism it is bent, or, as scientific folk say, refracted. The violet 

 waves are bent more than any of the others, so they all fall at one place 

 on the screen. The red waves are bent less than any of the others, so 

 they fall at another place on the screen. The green rays are bent just 

 twice as much as the red and half as much as the violet, so they fall just 

 halfway between the violet and the red. The yellow and the orange 

 appear between the green and the red on one side, and the peacock and 

 the blue appear between the green and the violet on the other. When 

 the colors in sunlight are sorted in this way so that we can see them, we 

 have what is called a spectrum. 



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