Where else in nature is this phenomenon observed ?

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The formation of rainbow is caused by the dispersion of the white sunlight into its constituent colours. The phenomenon of the splitting up of the white light into its constituent colours is called dispersion of light. Dispersion of light is caused because different constituent colours
of light offer different refractive indexes to the material of the prism.

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