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What is ment by light?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The human eye is sensible to the electromagnetic radiation detecting it in a well specified range of wavelengths, between 350 and 700 nm (a billion nanometers, nm, is a meter).

Electromagnetic radiation in this range is called light. The eye sensitivity is obtained by four different sensors, called cones, that detect different intervals of wavelengths. Thus humans have a certain capability of detecting the wavelength distribution of light: the subjective sensation due to different wavelength distributions is called light color. In particular elementary colors, like blue, red and green, corresponds to light of a single wavelength.

Sometimes the name light is overused by indicating also invisible electromagnetic radiation like ultraviolet and infrared.

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