Beer–Lambert law
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lambert-Beer law, Lambert–Beer law, Beer's law, Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law, Bouguer's law, Bouguer–Lambert law, Lambert's law of absorption
physical law describing absorption of light
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Vinony files it under Electromagnetic radiation, Scattering, absorption and radiative transfer (optics) and Spectroscopy.
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- Instance of
- physical law
- Named after
- Pierre Bouguer
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Encyclopedic overview
The Beer–Lambert law (also known as Beer’s law) is used to determine the concentration of substances in a solution. It describes how the amount of light that a solution absorbs is directly proportional to the solution's concentration. This relationship is commonly expressed as
A = ε c l
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