absorbance
or ab·sorb·an·cy
[ab-sawr-buh ns or ab-sawr-buh n-see; -zawr-]
- the capacity of a substance to absorb radiation, expressed as the common logarithm of the reciprocal of the transmittance of the substance.
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Origin of absorbance
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absorbance
- physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittanceSee transmittance
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absorbance
(əb-zôr′bəns)- In spectrophotometry, equal to 2 minus the log of the percentage transmittance of light.extinction optical density
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