How will you use two identical prisms so that a narrow beam of white light incident on one prism emerges out of the second prism as white light? Draw the diagram.

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By placing two identical prism inverted with respect to the other, we get a narrow beam of white light incident on one prism and emerging out of the second prism again as white light.

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