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What is the difference between matter and electromagnetic waves?

Electromagnetic waves are very much different from the matter waves and in many ways.

a)      Speed of matter waves is very much less than the speed of electromagnetic waves.

b)      Matter waves cannot be radiated in empty space unlike electromagnetic waves.

c)       Matter waves are just associated with the particle, not emitted by it

Matter waves have smaller wave lengths than electromagnetic waves