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red light is used in traffic lights because red light has a "longer wavelength" than other colours

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Q: Why red light is used as the traffic light?
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Why rad light used in traffic light?

To humans RED means stop or danger in our brains.


What doses a red traffic light mean What does a flashing red traffic light mean?

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