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Beer's Law and the meta-Polyphenyls

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IT is now generally accepted that Beer's law always holds for dilute solutions, and that the deviations sometimes met with are due to a change in the nature of the absorbing entity with concentration.

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CADE, J., PILBEAM, A. Beer's Law and the meta-Polyphenyls. Nature 201, 387–388 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201387a0

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