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Lambert's law

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Lambert's law [′lamĀ·bərts ‚lȯ]
(optics)
The law that the illumination of a surface by a light ray varies as the cosine of the angle of incidence between the normal to the surface and the incident ray.
The law that the luminous intensity in a given direction radiated or reflected by a perfectly diffusing plane surface varies as the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface.
(analytical chemistry)


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