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How to Build a Spectroscope
published by the Exploratorium
At this site from the Exploratorium, you'll find instructions to make a spectroscope from a shoebox and a diffraction grating.  With it, you can see that white light is made up of light of different colors.  The site also contains step-by-step instructions, with photos, so you can easily build the instrument.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/spectroscope/
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Keywords: prism, spectra, spectrum
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How to Build a Spectroscope (Exploratorium, San Francisco), WWW Document, (http://www.exploratorium.edu/spectroscope/).
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How to Build a Spectroscope (Exploratorium, San Francisco), <http://www.exploratorium.edu/spectroscope/>.
APA Format
How to Build a Spectroscope. (n.d.). Retrieved May 22, 2013, from Exploratorium: http://www.exploratorium.edu/spectroscope/
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Exploratorium. How to Build a Spectroscope. San Francisco: Exploratorium. http://www.exploratorium.edu/spectroscope/ (accessed 22 May 2013).
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How to Build a Spectroscope. San Francisco: Exploratorium. 22 May 2013 <http://www.exploratorium.edu/spectroscope/>.
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