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  2. Mass attenuation coefficient - Wikipedia

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    Mass attenuation coefficients of selected elements for X-ray photons with energies up to 250 keV. The mass attenuation coefficient, or mass narrow beam attenuation coefficient of a material is the attenuation coefficient normalized by the density of the material; that is, the attenuation per unit mass (rather than per unit of distance).

  3. Mathematical descriptions of opacity - Wikipedia

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    absorption coefficient is essentially (but not quite always) synonymous with attenuation coefficient; see attenuation coefficient for details; molar absorption coefficient or molar extinction coefficient , also called molar absorptivity , is the attenuation coefficient divided by molarity (and usually multiplied by ln(10), i.e., decadic); see ...

  4. Attenuation coefficient - Wikipedia

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    The attenuation coefficient of a volume, denoted μ, is defined as [6] =, where Φ e is the radiant flux;; z is the path length of the beam.; Note that for an attenuation coefficient which does not vary with z, this equation is solved along a line from =0 to as:

  5. Mean free path - Wikipedia

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    The mass attenuation coefficient can be looked up or calculated for any material and energy combination using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) databases. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In X-ray radiography the calculation of the mean free path is more complicated, because photons are not mono-energetic, but have some distribution of ...

  6. Attenuation - Wikipedia

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    In engineering, attenuation is usually measured in units of decibels per unit length of medium (dB/cm, dB/km, etc.) and is represented by the attenuation coefficient of the medium in question. [1] Attenuation also occurs in earthquakes; when the seismic waves move farther away from the hypocenter, they grow smaller as they are attenuated by the ...

  7. Opacity - Wikipedia

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    For a given medium at a given frequency, the opacity has a numerical value that may range between 0 and infinity, with units of length 2 /mass. Opacity in air pollution work refers to the percentage of light blocked instead of the attenuation coefficient (aka extinction coefficient) and varies from 0% light blocked to 100% light blocked:

  8. Scattering - Wikipedia

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    In nuclear physics, area cross-sections (e.g. σ in barns or units of 10 −24 cm 2), density mean free path (e.g. τ in grams/cm 2), and its reciprocal the mass attenuation coefficient (e.g. in cm 2 /gram) or area per nucleon are all popular, while in electron microscopy the inelastic mean free path [14] (e.g. λ in nanometers) is often ...

  9. List of common astronomy symbols - Wikipedia

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    This is a compilation of symbols commonly used in astronomy, particularly professional astronomy. Age (stellar) τ - age ... Mass comparison: M E, M E - mass of Earth;