MacBook Air default function keys

On F5 and F6 there is a designation to decrease and increase something. I'm getting the feeling that these keys are not available on the MacBook Air, in fact they are not present on my bluetooth keyboard I use on my Mac Mini. I am curious what there function would be and what device they are used for?

F5/F6 keys are there to decrease/increase keyboard backlight.
There are some models of Macbook Air that came without keyboard backlight.
So those keys are not "functional" in those models.

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