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Old 09-06-2006, 09:58 AM   #13
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When light enters through a vertical side face of such an ice crystal and leaves from the bottom face, it refracts, or bends, in the same way that light passes through a prism.
Actually, the breaking up of white light into its component colors is called dispersion. Refraction is something different.
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