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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>It seems like other electromagnetic waves have some special properties.
Not realy. There is nothing special to microwaves, uv, x-rays or any other electromagnetic wave. The effects you listed are all just results of the wavelength and thus the energy of the wave as energy correleates with the wave length. All electromagnetic waves heat things when they are reflected. All electromagnetic waves penetrate things that are further apart than their wave length. Thats why you can see through air.
One important thing to remember about this electromagnetic waves are a spectrum of wave length and with that wave length the energy changes.
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