It seems like other electromagnetic waves have some special properties. Microwave can heat the water molecules, infrared is basically “heat waves”. UV have enough energy to damage DNA and harm a living things. X-rays and Gamma radiation can penetrate a lot of material and also damage DNA. But the visible part is just visible, or it have some other properties?
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All those properties are not really defining of those ranges, they just happen. For example, not all microwaves heat water molecules efficiently, it’s just happen that the wavelength that heat the water molecules the most in in the microwaves range.
For visible light, and interesting one is that glass is transparent for it, while it blocks most of the other types of lights.
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