Opacity (optics) Opacity is the measure of impenetrability to electromagnetic or other kinds of radiation, especially visible light. In radiative transfer, it describes the absorption and scattering of radiation in a medium, such as a plasma, dielectric, shielding material, glass, etc.
Answers.comÂ® is making the world better one answer at a time. during Calvin Benson cycle carbon dioxide from the air is used to produce glucose and other compounds.
We now have six Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (GAP) molecules. Five of these are needed to regenerate the original three RuBP molecules, which completes one turn of the Calvin Cycle. The sixth GAP molecule is extra. It was built using the three carbon atoms brought into the cycle by the three CO 2 molecules in Step two.