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• Optical tweezer is nothing but a laser light, used to move micro sized particles or

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• Optical tweezer is nothing but a laser light, used to move micro sized particles or molecules from one location to another location. It has a lot of applications in the medical field. The bacteria and virus can alone be separated from regular tissue using this optical tweezer and cancerous cells can be separated from normal healthy cells. The optical tweezer utilizes momentum property of EM waves.

• In fact, the comet has tail shape because the sun light impart large amount of linear momentum which pushes the masses of the comet away from the sun.

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