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Newton's rings in a thin film of diesel oil on a wet road, seen in white light

The phenomenon of Newton's rings, named after Isaac Newton, who first studied them in 1717, is an interference pattern caused by the reflection of light between two surfaces – a spherical surface and an adjacent flat surface.

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