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There is only one kind of electromagnetic wave, but we give it different names,

roughly according to its frequency/wavelength. Names like radio, light, microwave,

heat, red, X-ray, green, gamma ray, ultraviolet, blue, etc. But it's all the same

phenomenon.

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