Three prisms placed in the same orientation split white light into how many component colours?

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Three prisms placed in the same orientation split white light into how many component colours? — Exam MCQ

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A. 7 — Successive similarly oriented prisms further disperse the same spectrum; they do not multiply the number of conventional colour bands.

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B. 14

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C. 21

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D. They do not split white light