DETERMINATION OF TRANSPARENCY, COLORITY, AND TURBIDITY OF WATER BY INTEGRATED INTENSITY OF LIGHT ABSORPTION IN VISIBLE SPECTRUM

Abstract

Transparency, colority, and turbidity of water can be reliably determined by the integrated intensity of light absorption in the visible spectrum of natural water samples. Transparency is determinated by light absorption of original water, colority - by light absorption of centrifuged water, and turbidity - by difference of the light absorption of original water and centrifuged water. In order to eliminate the differences of spectrophotometric measurements of colority and turbidity of water, it is reasonable to determinate this parameters by the integrated intensity of light absorption and to use a new more realistic physical dimension of them (cm^-2).