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No - light is not formed by molecules.

Molecules are groups of atoms bonded together by chemical bonds. Examples are water (two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, H2O, and methanoic

acid, HCOOH).


Light is formed by elementary particles of the boson category called photons. Since in quantum mechanic particles are described by a quantum field, light can also be seen as an electromagnetic field that can be described through two related vector field: the electrical and the magnetic field (or through a Minkosky

four dimensional tensor collecting the two vector components). To be precise visible light (that we generally call simply light) is an electromagnetic field oscillating in a well precise frequency interval where the human eye is sensible and can detect photons. Since different frequencies of visible light are sensed like different elementary colors by the human brain elaborating information coming from eyes, in the visible frequency band light frequencies are also called

colors.


Photons are responsible of electromagnetic interactions, so that many chemical bonds forming molecules can be interpreted in quantum mechanics as exchange of photons between the involved atoms. For example this is the case of the ion bond binding the Cl (Chloride) and Na (Sodium)

ions in common table salt

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