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"Light added to light can produce darkness". Write the name of this phenomenon.

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This phenomenon is known as "Destructive Interference". When light waves of opposite phases and equal amplitudes meet at a point, they cancel each other and hence, produce darkness.

x(t)=Asin(ωt)+Asin(ωt+π)=0

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