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Light is a name we give to a rather narrow band of electro-magnetic radiation with wavelengths between 380 and 470 nanometres. Of course, some birds and insects see a wider range than us. Light may travel through a vacuum.

Sound and vibration require a physical medium for their transmission, and obviously, surface waves (such as water waves) require a material, and indeed the surface of a material, for their transmission.

Light behaves in some ways as waves, in other ways as particles called photons.

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