Radio waves

- Radio waves have a wavelength just above one metre.

- Scaling Comparison : Average Human
- The range of the radio spectrum is considered to be 3 kHz up to 3,000 GHz or 3.0 ×
108 Hz .
- Radiation Classification : Non - Ionizing
- Specific Application : Technology, used in standard broadcast radio and
television.military communications, mobile phones wireless networks,etc

Microwaves

- Microwaves have a wavelength of about 1 m to 1 mm

- Scaling Comparison : Guitar
- Their frequencies range from 3.0 × 108 to 3.0 × 1011 Hz
- Radiation Classification: Non - Ionizing
- Specific Application : They are used in communications, radio astronomy, remote
sensing, radar,etc.

Infrared

- Infrared Radiation occupies the wavelength between 1 mm and 700 nm

- Scaling comparison : Needle point
- Frequency : 300 GHz – 430 THz
- Radiation Classification: Non - Ionizing
- Specific Application : infrared-systems are used for heating purposes in the form of
panels, fixed to the walls or to the ceiling. Other applications are infrared cameras,
night vision devices, infrared remote controls and infrared ports for computers

Visible Light

- Visible Lights have wavelengths ranging from 700 nm to 400 nm.

- Scaling Comparison : Protozoans
- Frequency : 400 THz to 800 THz
- Radiation Classification : Non - Ionizing
- Specific Application: uses of visible lights can be in electronic gadgets,
photography, and fibre optic communications.
- (This region of the electromagnetic spectrum is the region that the human eye
can see)

- ( Protozoans - single-celled microorganisms. Parasite )

Ultraviolet

- Ultraviolet Radiation has a Wavelength usually from 400 nm to 10 nm

- Scaling Comparison : Molecules
- Frequency : from 30 PHz to 750 THz
- Radiation Classification : Ionizing
- Specific Application : tanning booths, black lights,killing bacteria, creating
fluorescent effects,etc.

X-ray

- X-rays are those with wavelengths from 10 nm to 100 pm

- Scaling Comparison : Atoms
- Frequency : 3 x 1016 Hz to 3 x 1019 Hz
- Radiation Classification : Ionizing
- Specific Application : Radiograph,Radiation therapy,Security,etc

Gamma Ray

- The wavelengths of Gamma rays are those less than 100 pm

- Scaling Comparison : An Atoms Nucleus
- Frequency : above 30 x 10^18 hertz
- Radiation Classification : Ionizing
- Specific Application : Radiotherapy, sterilisation and disinfection, nuclear uses