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Radio waves exhibit properties and characteristics of behavior that are in every way identical

to the properties and characteristics of light waves. That is, they experience absorption,

transmission, reflection, refraction, diffraction, dispersion, interference, attenuation, and

inverse-square free space loss, exactly following all of the laws of optics.

Note that the laws of optics always involve the wavelength in question. When comparing

radio waves with light waves, one must take into consideration the fact that the shortest

radio waves are almost 4,000 times longer than the longest light waves.

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