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Most ordinary gases show little visible-light dispersion because the propagation speeds of different visible wavelengths are _____.

RRB Group-D 16/09/2022 / Shift-III 2022
✓ Answer: D Almost the same as c
For ordinary gases, visible-light speeds are close to c and differ only slightly with wavelength. Dispersion is weak, not strictly absent.
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