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When light is incidence on a diffraction grating, then the zero order maximum will be

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Spectrum of the colours

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White

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One of the component colours

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Absent

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Solution

The correct option is C White
When light is incident on a diffraction grating, then zero order principal maximum will have only white colour.

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