The presence of particulate matter, emulsions, micelles, etc. may cause radiation
scattering which will result in further
attenuation of the transmitted beam and the measured
absorbance will be too high. This error is called the
scattering error.Source:
PAC, 1988, 60, 1449
(Nomenclature, symbols, units and their usage in spectrochemical analysis - VII. Molecular
absorption spectroscopy, ultraviolet and visible (UV/VIS) (Recommendations 1988))
on page 1457