How Light Works
But what exactly is light? We catch glimpses of its nature when a sunbeam angles through a dust-filled room, when a rainbow appears after a storm or when a drinking straw in a glass of water looks
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But what exactly is light? We catch glimpses of its nature when a sunbeam angles through a dust-filled room, when a rainbow appears after a storm or when a drinking straw in a glass of water looks
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In most situations, light behaves like a wave with properties like wavelength and frequency, and is subject to diffraction and interference. In some situations, light can be considered to behave like a
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LIGHT definition: something that makes things visible or affords illumination. See examples of light used in a sentence.
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Light is electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation occurs over an extremely wide range of wavelengths, from gamma rays with wavelengths
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