Saturday, August 26, 2006

definition of optical brightener

Optical brightener -A compound that absorbs the invisible ultraviolet component of sunlight and re-emits it as visible light at the blue end of the spectrum. It is also called fluorcesent whitening agent,optical brightening agent, fluorcesent brightener etc. Usually we can call it as OBA/FWA.

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