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Playing with Light and Colour

Playing with Light and Colour

Most light sources give out pure white light. White light is made up of three different colours: - red, green and blue light. Your colour TV has only red, green and blue dots but these make all the other colours you see. Look at the diagram to see how red, green and blue light combine to give different colours.

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Combination of red, green and blue colours making up white light