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What name has been given to Max Planck's "packets of light"? What does it mean to say that the packets are "quantized"?

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Max Planck suggested energy existed in small packets that he called "quanta". It would be the smallest possible unit. Albert Einstein applied that concept to light and called the "packets of light" as photons. The photons are "quantized" as they have specific energy levels specific to their wavelengths.

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