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Light extinction coefficient

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-003771

It is a measure of how much light is absorbed or scattered as it passes through a medium, such as the atmosphere.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-003771
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesUS Environmental Protection Agency; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoOptical properties; Absorbance; Absorptivity; Light scattering
TranslationsSpanish: coeficiente de extinción de la luz
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-003771",
  "term": "Light extinction coefficient",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "It is a measure of how much light is absorbed or scattered as it passes through a medium, such as the atmosphere.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "optical properties",
    "absorbance",
    "absorptivity",
    "light scattering"
  ],
  "references": [
    "US Environmental Protection Agency",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "coeficiente de extinción de la luz"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/light-extinction-coefficient/"
}

Record 3,724 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.