Do Vibrating Charged Particles Produce Electromagnetic Waves?

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Can I assert that any charged particle vibrating at a certain frequency produces an electromagnetic wave with the same frequency? Considering this, do elastic waves generate electromagnetic waves?
 
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May I enquire what an elastic wave is so far as EM goes?
 

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