The colors of rubies and emeralds are so striking that they define shades of red and green—ruby red and emerald green. But ...
When this happens, light becomes separated into a rainbow of colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo (blue-violet), and violet. In this activity, you can make your own rainbow.
You can use a prism to split (or disperse) white light into a spectrum of colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Dispersed means that the colours are separated out.
Discover where black falls on the color spectrum and how human perception of colors is subjective and context-dependent in this insightful article.