Beer, August

Beer,

August, German physicist, 1825-1863.

Beer-Lambert law - the absorbance of light is directly proportional to the thickness of the ligand through which the light is being transmitted multiplied by the concentration of absorbing chromophore.

Beer law - the intensity of a color or of a light ray is inversely proportional to the depth of liquid through which it is transmitted.

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Beer-Lambert law
Lambert, Johann Heinrich

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