What is meant by the term "absorbance" in spectrophotometry procedures.?

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mrpauller.weebly.com
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

#A=-log(%T)#

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