In 1670, Isaac Newton performed a crucial experiment on the nature of light when he
A) proved mathematically that light could be described by oscillating electric and magnetic fields.
B) demonstrated that white light was made up of colors that could be split by a prism and that these colors were not produced by the glass through which the light passed.
C) showed that a prism through which light passed added a spectrum of colors to the light.
D) demonstrated the wave nature of light by passing light through two slits and obtaining a pattern of bright and dark bands on a screen that he ascribed to interference between the two beams.

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Isaac Newton's crucial experiment in 1670 demonstrated that white light was composed of different colors that could be separated by a prism, and importantly, that these colors were inherent to the light itself, not produced by the prism.

In 1670, Isaac Newton Performed a Crucial Experiment on the Nature