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ALBEDO (from Lat. albus, white)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 492 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ALBEDO (from Lat. albus, white)

ALBEDO (from See also:
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Lat. albus, See also:
WHITE
WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white) , " whiteness," a word used principally in See also:

ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy for the degree of reflected See also:

LIGHT

light; the light of the See also:

sun which is reflected from the See also:

moon is called the See also:

ALBEDO (from Lat. albus, white)

albedo of the moon .

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