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  • noun Plural form of absorbance.

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Examples

  • He hoped that the infrared absorbances of thiocyanate would tell us whether such bridging was taking place.

    Roger Y. Tsien - Autobiography 2009

  • Only viable cells reduce WST-1 to produce formazan with the ratio of absorbances at 450 and 630 nm correlated to the number of viable cells in the culture.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Carlene S. Starck et al. 2010

  • Only viable cells reduce WST-1 to produce formazan with the ratio of absorbances at 450 and 630 nm correlated to the number of viable cells in the culture.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Carlene S. Starck et al. 2010

  • The relative reactivity of the sera to each fragment was calculated based on the value of the absorbance obtained for each sample for a specific fragment, divided by the sum of all the absorbances.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

  • What makes me uneasy, and it’s not your fault, is that there are no errors on any of the fluxes, reflectances, and absorbances.

    Unthreaded #6 « Climate Audit 2007

  • What makes me uneasy, and it’s not your fault, is that there are no errors on any of the fluxes, reflectances, and absorbances.

    Unthreaded #6 « Climate Audit 2007

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