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A spectroscope is an optical device that can stimulate student’s interest in the visible light’s constituent colors. This educational tool is conventionally used to qualitatively observe the emission spectra of various light sources, which can serve as a springboard to understanding the fundamentals of spectroscopy, the wave nature of light, and th...
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