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Beer-Lambert Law
« on: August 29, 2019, 08:39:20 PM »
Transmittance has a Logarithmic relationship to Concentration. Why does Absorbance have a Linear relationship to Concentration instead of a Logarithmic one?

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Re: Beer-Lambert Law
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2019, 02:35:28 AM »
It was defined to have a linear relationship, no wonder it does.
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