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📅 NSB Regional 2016🎓 HS🔄 Round 17#️⃣ Question 21❓ TOSS-UP✍️ Short Answer

Refracting telescopes have a severe limitation in that each wavelength of light is refracted differently, making it impossible to focus on more than one wavelength of light at a time. What is this type of optical aberration called?

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