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Light is described as a wave and sometimes as a particle. What evidence supports the wave nature of light? (A couple sentences will do)
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Light is described as a wave and sometimes as a particle. What evidence supports the wave nature of light? (A couple sentences will do)

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Ability to propagate in the space (where is no medium).
Refraction probably too.
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Refraction, diffraction, dispersion, constructive and destructive interference, are only done by waves, and light does all of them.
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