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absorbance

[ ab-sawr-buhns, -zawr- ]

noun

Physics.
  1. the capacity of a substance to absorb radiation, expressed as the common logarithm of the reciprocal of the transmittance of the substance.


absorbance

/ əbˈsɔːbəns; -ˈzɔː- /

noun

  1. physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance See transmittance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of absorbance1

First recorded in 1945–50; absorb(ent) + -ance
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The new method monitors neutral lipids within LDs directly by detecting changes in IR absorbance.

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A photochemistry lab at Harvard collaborated in the research by providing measurements of the UV absorbance patterns of ferric iron under extreme acidic conditions, in an attempt to mimic the even more extreme Venusian clouds.

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The acoustic absorbance provided by the jeans greatly reduced the reverberations produced by the canopy, improving the sound quality of the 28,000-square-foot courtyard.

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Protein concentration was estimated by absorbance at 280 nm with a predicted extinction coefficient of 115,600 M−1 cm−1.

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Thus, the 2D spectrum directly separates the linear absorbance spectrum of the mixture on the left into the spectra of its components on the right.

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