Colors of Light

VOCABULARY #3

PRISIM: a cut piece of a clear glass or plastic with two opposite sides in the shape of a triangle or other geometric shape.

With a PRISM you can make a rainbow.

SPECTRUM: a band of colors produce when light goes through out a prism

The SPECTRUM is a rainbow.

PRIMARY COLORS:  red, green, or blue; mixing these colors can produce all the colors of the spectum.

The PRIMARY COLORS are red, green , and blue. If you mix them , they form magenta,

yellow, cyan, and  white.

  

PRIMARY PIGMENT: magenta, cyan, yellow; material with any of these colors absorbs

one primary color of light and reflects the other two.

The PRIMARY PIGMENT is the results that you optine of the blue, red, and green.