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light extinction coefficient  

DEFINITION

  • Exponent in Lambert-Beer’s law quantifying how much light is removed from an incident light beam while passing through a sample of unit depth.
  • The volume extinction coefficient is the fractional change of radiative flux per unit path length due to the stated process, i.e. due to the sum of particle induced scattering and absorption.

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