What is meant by the term "absorbance" in spectrophotometry procedures.?
1 Answer
Mar 9, 2017
Absorbance tells you how much light is absorbed by a sample. Transmittance tells you how much light passes through the sample without being absorbed.
Explanation:
The relationship between absorbance and transmittance is given by the following equation
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