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DEBYE
Proper noun
Debye
A surname.
Peter Debye physicist and physical chemist
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• bedye
Etymology
Noun
debye (plural debyes)
(physics) The CGS unit of electric dipole moment, defined as 1 D = 10-18 statcoulomb-centimetre and computable from the SI unit coulomb-metre by multiplying by the factor 3.33564 × 10-30.
Usage notes
• Historically defined as the electric dipole moment resulting from two equal but opposite charges of absolute magnitude statcoulomb separated by 1 Ã¥ngström.
• It is used much more frequently than the SI unit, being suited for measurements at the molecular scale relevant to chemistry and atomic physics. In contrast, the SI unit is inconveniently large.
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• bedye
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