Answer:
Different colours of white light bend through different angles with respect to the incident ray as they pass through a prism. Violet light bends the most and red the least. Thus, the each colour emerges along different paths and white light gets dispersed. Newton used two glass prisms, with one prism in inverted position to show that white light contains seven colours. The setup is shown below.
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