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Different kinds of light are all around us every day, but we are invisible to it. Explain the type of light that is visible to humans and which types of light are not. Also, explain why we can perceive
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Different kinds of light are all around us every day, but we are invisible to it. Explain the type of light that is visible to humans and which types of light are not. Also, explain why we can perceive some forms of light and not others.

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The human eye can only see white visible light and it contains all the colors of the rainbow, from red to violet but visible light comes in many "colors" such as radio, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray that are invisible to the eye. The reason that the human eye can see the spectrum is that those specific wavelengths stimulate the retina in the human eye.

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