Around 1670,Isaac Newton performed a crucial experiment on the nature of light when he
A) showed the wave nature of light by passing light through two slits and obtaining a pattern of bright interference bands on a screen.
B) showed that light that passes through a prism has a spectrum of colors added to it by the prism.
C) proved mathematically that light can be described by oscillating electric and magnetic fields.
D) demonstrated that the colors that make up white light are intrinsic,not produced by the glass through which the light passes.

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Newton demonstrated that white light is composed of different colors, which are intrinsic to the light itself and not added by the prism.

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