absorption coefficient

A Dictionary of Astronomy | Date: 1997

absorption coefficient A measure of the decrease in intensity of radiation as it passes through a medium. It is the reciprocal of the distance required to reduce the radiation to 1/e of its original value (where e is a constant equal to 2.718).


© A Dictionary of Astronomy 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997.

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