"nonabsorbing" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001, Jill M. Olinger, Peter R. Griffiths, Thorsten Burger, “Theory of Diffuse Reflection in the NIR Region”, in Donald A. Burns, Emil W. Ciurczak, editor, Handbook of Near-Infrared Analysis, page 42:",
          "text": "Equation 2 applies only to the case of a dielectric nonabsorbing particle and unpolarized incident radiation.",
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          "ref": "2012, Milan Milosevic, Internal Reflection and ATR Spectroscopy:",
          "text": "Another simple, but practically important, case is one of the nonabsorbing film of thickness d₁ on the absorbing film of thickness d₂ over a nonabsorbing substrate.",
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          "ref": "2016, John H. Seinfeld, Spyros N. Pandis, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, page 977:",
          "text": "The aerosol layer scattering model can be simplified if a nonabsorbing aerosol, that is, ω = 1, is considered and account is taken of the fact that the optical depth for most tropospheric conditions is usually about 0.1 or smaller, thereby allowing one to assume τ « 1.",
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        "That does not absorb (sound, radiation, fluid etc.)"
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          "ref": "1991, Robert E. Markland, Topics in Management Science, page 553:",
          "text": "To interprest the results given by the fundamental matrix, recall that the nonabsorbing states are states 3 and 4.",
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          "ref": "2015, Carla C. Morris, Robert M. Stark, Finite Mathematics: Models and Applications, page 307:",
          "text": "A matrix C where C = NR determines the probability that the chain will enter a particular absorbing state having begun in a given nonabsorbing state.",
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          "ref": "2020, Matthew A. Carlton, Jay L. Devore, Probability with STEM Applications, page 453:",
          "text": "Starting in a nonabsorbing state i, the chain will eventually be absorbed into absorbing state a if either (1) the chain transitions immediately into ''a, or (2) the chain transitions into any nonabsorbing state and then eventually is absorbed into state a.",
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        "(mathematics) That permits a transition to a different state."
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