Lab, Camera, Action: Make your own CD spectrometer

Update: 2014-02-03

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How do we know what the stars are made of when we've never been to one? Dr Andrew Steele shows us how to make a spectrometer, a device used by scientists to analyse light, using a cereal box and a CD. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Lab, Camera, Action: Make your own CD spectrometer

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Lab, Camera, Action: Make your own CD spectrometer

Andrew Steele

Lab, Camera, Action: Make your own CD spectrometer