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Cobalt-60 is a radioactive isotope used to treat cancers. Agamma ray emitted by this isotope has an energy of 1.33 MeV(million electron volts; 1 eV=1.602X10⁻¹⁹J). What is the fre-quency (in Hz) and the wavelength (in m) of this gamma ray?
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