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Line 186: \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150724051216/http://web.mit.edu/course/6/6.732/www/6.732-pt2.pdf \|archive-date = 2015-07-24 }}</ref>{{rp\|36}} indicates the amount of attenuation when the electromagnetic wave propagates through the material.<ref name="Hecht"/>{{rp\|p=128}} It is related to the <!-- do not wikilink, the article by that name covers thermal absorption-->'''[[absorption coefficient]]''', <math>\alpha_\text{abs}</math>, through:<ref name=DresselhausMITCourse/>{{rp\|41}} <math display="block">\alpha_\text{abs}(\omega) = \frac{2\omega\kappa(\omega)}{c}</math> These values depend upon the frequency of the light used in the measurement.

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