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ShareElectromagnetic radiation is a propagating wave in space with electric and magnetic components.
These components oscillate at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation.
For more information about the topic Electromagnetic radiation, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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