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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | Date: 1998

absorption spectrum A graph that shows the percentage of each wavelength of light absorbed by a pigment (e.g. chlorophyll, which absorbs mainly in the red and blue parts of the spectrum).


© A Dictionary of Plant Sciences 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998.

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