Monday, October 18, 2010

How about a real theory for once

      
      Beer's Theory,actually called Beer's Law : "The law states that there is a logarithmic dependence between the transmission (or transmisivity), T, of light through a substance and the product of the absorption coefficient of the substance, α, and the distance the light travels through the material (i.e. the path length), . The absorption coefficient can, in turn, be written as a product of either a molar absorptivity of the absorber, ε, and the concentration c of absorbing species in the material, or an absorption cross section, σ, and the (number) density N of absorbers".(quote from Wikipedia).
      In short Beer's Law is not about drinking alcohol and it's used mostly in spectrophotometry, for example in medical laboratories there are plenty of analyzers that have technical principles based on this law. I remembered it while doing a research and made me smile,the most normal thing I could think of lately, compared to all the  things that pop into my head almost every day (I am referring to the content of this blog).

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