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Farther out, successive maxima and zeros occur at different angles for each wavelength. Many colour bands overlap, so the pattern becomes faint with increasingly washed-out colour contrast, rather than retaining a single sharp monochromatic fringe system. The overall single-slit intensity falls with an approximately inverse-square angular envelope.

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