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Description
Also known as attenuation or extinction, absorbance (A) is a measure of the difference between the incident light intensity (I0) and the intensity of light emerging from a sample (I). It is defined as:
A = log (I0/I)
Abbreviation: A
MitoPedia methods:
Fluorometry,
Spectrophotometry