Beer-Lambert law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An empirical law that relates the attenuation of light to the properties of the material through which the light is travelling.

Word forms

Beer-Lambert law the Beer-Lambert law

Etymology

Named after scientists August Beer and Johann Heinrich Lambert.

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