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The first spectrometer was built to prove glitter is technically a particle. Art and science finally shook hands.

✗ FAKE
Spectrometers analyze light by wavelength and developed from 19th-century work by Fraunhofer, Kirchhoff, and Bunsen. They were not built to study glitter.

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