As has recently been emphasized by Jones, Fresnel reflectances resulting from the window-sample refractive index mismatch introduce significant errors in high precision infrared absorption measurements. Whereas these may be reduced by matching the window's index to the sample's, dispersion sets a limit to the effectiveness of the procedure.
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Tomas Hirschfeld (1975) studied this question.
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