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Clever-Name: Compton scattering only applies to X- and gamma-rays, so I'm still not sure what happens with radio waves. When you say "transferring energy kinetically" do you mean that the photon's kinetic energy, upon collision, increases the translation kinetic energy of molecules within the...

Sorry for the length of this post, but even if you can only help answer one of my questions I'd be grateful! After a lot of reading about electro-magnetic radiation's interaction with matter, I am still unclear about a few things. Let me first explain what I've gathered from my reading so far...