Q: What is the equivalent width of this absorption line? The blue area is a very rough triangle with width = 2.5 Angstroms and depth 10,000 units * Angstroms so it has area 25,000 Angstrom*units. Since the height of the brown rectangle is about 40,000 units, its width must be 25,000 Angstrom*units width = ---------------------- 40,000 units = 0.63 Angstroms