What is the main tenet of Plank's quantum hypothesis?

A) Energy comes in discrete packets of a certain minimum size.
B) Energy is composed of subatomic particles called quanta.
C) Energy is a continuum, but light is quantized.
D) Energy can be converted into matter through nuclear quanta.
E) Light is composed of waves that exist only at certain quantum fundamental frequencies.


A

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