Definitions
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- noun (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation
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Examples
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EDRF, maximum absorbance moved to a new wave-length; and exposed to NO, exactly the same shift in absorbance occurred!
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Remarkably, the new technique, which the researchers call absorbance modulation, makes it possible to create lines that are only about one-tenth as wide as the wavelength of light used to create them.
Nano Tech Wire 2009
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Remarkably, the new technique, which the researchers call absorbance modulation, makes it possible to create lines that are only about one-tenth as wide as the wavelength of light used to create them.
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These properties are called absorbance - (a) and reflectance - (r).
2. Fundamentals 1993
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I wasn't there so I don't know what happened, but keep in mind that "choking up" on the rod reduces the amount of shock absorbance that a rod has.
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I wasn't there so I don't know what happened, but keep in mind that "choking up" on the rod reduces the amount of shock absorbance that a rod has.
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Another strategy was to create "electrochromic dyes" with large changes in dipole moment between ground and excited state, so that a change in neuronal membrane potential could shift the peak wavelengths of absorbance or fluorescence4.
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Haemoglobin absorbs quite severely below 600 nanometres, so you want to be above 600 nanometres to avoid the blood absorbance as much as possible.
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And one of the great mysteries that I've never figured out is why the jellyfish chose the only amino acid that would compromise, and be schizophrenic, and be partly UV and partly blue in its absorbance.
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At least for the wild-type, there's one amino acid that controls really primary colour of the emission, and the next one to it controls, if you are going to be green, what is your absorbance spectrum.
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