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Simply wavelength. The wavelength is the length of the ultraviolet or infrared waves from one point (say, the crest) on one wave to the same point on the next. Infrared waves are longer than ultraviolet waves - on average about a thousand times llonger. Both ultraviolet and infrared rays are part of what is called the 'electromagnetic spectrum' - electromagnetic waves that are all the same sort of wave except for their wavelength. These include Gamma rays - the shortest waves, each one shorter than one thousand millionth of a millimetre X rays - around a ten millionth of a millimetre or so Ultraviolet (meaning 'beyond violet) waves - around a hundred thousandth of a millimetre or so Visible light (in order of increasing wavelength: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red) - of the order of a thousandth of a millimetre or so Infrared (meaning 'below red') waves - around a hundredth of a millimetre or so Microwaves - from a millimetre or so up to a few centimetres Radio waves - the longest waves , from a few centimetres through to a few metres or even kilometres in length. All travel at the speed of light, but each kind of wave has a different effect because of their wavelength. For example, gamma rays, because of their penetrating short waves will travel even through lead, whereas X rays will travel through the human body, hence their use in medicine. Visible light will only travel through things that are transparent like glass, whereas radio waves cannot penetrate very well at all.

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