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Light is electromagnetic radiation. Typically, when people refer to "light", they are talking about visible light (the small range of frequencies of electromagnetic radation that we can see with the human eye). However, in a more general way, light is made up of the same "stuff" (photons, also known as "quanta", also known as "energy"). And electromagnetic radiation is found in many different frequencies (energies) from low energies of radio waves, to the infrared (heat), to visible light to ultraviolet light (black light, or the part of sunlight that causes sunburns), to x-rays (used in medicine and in security to see through things), to gamma radiation (which is found in cosmic rays and in radioactive decay).
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