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In young's double slit experiment, the fringe width is 12mm. If the entire arrangement is placed in water of refractive index
, then the fringe width becomes (in mm)
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B
For a given light wavelength corresponding a medium of refractive index 

and we know that fringe width 
Therefore, 
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