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In accelerator experimetn on high energy collisions of electrons with positrons, a certaind event is interprected as annihilation of an electron-position pair of total energy 10.2 BeV into two `gamma-rays` of equal energy. What it the wavelength associated with each `gamma-rays`? `(1BeV=10^9 eV)`.

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