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Polarization characterizes the oscillations in time the electromagnetic field is doing in the plane perpendicular to the propagation direction of a wave

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Is free space a 'dielectric'?

The medium has a relative permittivity >1 and can be treated as a dielectric. So yes to your first question. The vacuum can be polarised, the polarisability depends on the applied field which itself i …
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