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SUBMITTER: Mayerhofer TG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7216834 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry 20200311 8
Beer's empiric law states that absorbance is linearly proportional to the concentration. Based on electromagnetic theory, an approximately linear dependence can only be confirmed for comparably weak oscillators. For stronger oscillators the proportionality constant, the molar attenuation coefficient, is modulated by the inverse index of refraction, which is itself a function of concentration. For comparably weak oscillators, the index of refraction function depends, like absorbance, linearly on ...[more]