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Scattering efficiency factor

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scattering efficiency factor

The ratio of the scattering cross section to the geometrical cross section.

Scattering efficiency factors increase with the sixth power of the radius for Rayleigh scatterers and tend to a value of 2 for nonabsorbing scatterers in the geometric optics limit.

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