Bouguer Law
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Bouguer Law
A relationship describing the rate of decrease of flux density of a
plane-parallel beam of monochromatic
radiation as it penetrates a medium which both scatters and absorbs at that
wavelength. This law may be expressed
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References
This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
