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What is meant by the statement "energy is quantized"?
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What is meant by the statement "energy is quantized"?

User Konstantin Bodnia
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That means that the amount of energy can only be certain numbers, as if
energy came in tiny packets, and the in-between amounts don't exist.

Another example of a measurement in nature that is quantized is
electric charge.


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