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Silly me. Yes, it does happen in a glass block, except the phenonmenon is very difficult to observe. A more detailed explanation is given here: http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae184.cfm Thks for replying anyway.

This question bothered me for some time. From what i have seen in textbooks, dispersion occurs as soon as white light passes from air into a glass prism, but why not for a glass block, assuming that the angle of incidence is the same? The standard answer for why dispersion happens in glass...