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Term: photon
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Definition: the elementary quantity of energy of electromagnetic radiation. For electromagnetic energy of frequency v, the quantum energy is hv, where h is Planck's constant

NOTE – A photon is an elementary particle without a rest mass.


Publication date:1983-01
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