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Etymology edit

photo- +‎ absorbance

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photoabsorbance (usually uncountable, plural photoabsorbances)

  1. (physics) The effect of (varying intensities of) light on the absorbance of a material
    • 2015, Shalik Ram Joshi, B. Padmanabhan, Anupama Chanda, Indrani Mishra, V. K. Malik, N. C. Mishra, D. Kanjilal, Shikha Varma, “Enhanced Photoabsorption from Cobalt Implanted Rutile TiO2 (110) Surfaces”, in arXiv[1]:
      Results presented here demonstrate that fabrication of self organized nanostructures and development of oxygen vacancies, upon cobalt implantation, promote the enhancement of photoabsorbance in both UV (2 times) and visible (5 times) regimes.