Coherent isotropic scattering preserves photon frequency and redistributes direction uniformly. Its source function is the mean intensity , so conservative scattering removes light from a pencil beam while preserving luminosity integrated over all escaping directions.
The single-scattering albedo is the fraction of total extinction due to scattering, . Its complement is the absorptive fraction.

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