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Beer-Lambert law
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  1. In optics, the Beer–Lambert law, also known as Beer's law or the Lambert–Beer law or the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law (in fact, most of the permutations of these three names appear somewhere in literature) is an empirical relationship that relate

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  2. The law states that there is a logarithmic dependence between the transmission (or transmissivity), T \ of light through a substance and the product of the absorption coefficient of the substance, \alpha \ and the distance the light travels through t

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  3. Assume that particles may be described as having an absorption cross section (i.e. area), σ, perpendicular to the path of light through a solution, such that a photon of light is absorbed if it strikes the particle, and is transmitted if it does not

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  4. 's law can be applied to the analysis of a mixture by spectrophotometry, without the need for extensive pre-processing of the sample

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  5. This law is also applied to describe the attenuation of solar or stellar radiation as it travels through the atmosphere

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