Multiple Choice
Sir William Hershel passed a beam of sunlight through a prism and held a thermometer just beyond the end of the visible spectrum.The thermometer registered a temperature increase,indicating that it was being exposed to an invisible form of energy that is now called
A) radio waves.
B) microwaves.
C) infrared light.
D) ultraviolet light.
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