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debye

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The debye (symbol: D ) (; ) is a CGS unit (a non- SI metric unit) of electric dipole moment Electric dipole moment is defined as charge times displacement: p = q r named in honour of the physicist Peter J. W. Debye . It is defined as 1 statcoulomb - centimetre ...

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n. (context physics English): A CGS unit of electrical dipole moment equivalent to 3.33564 x 10 -30 coulomb meter, used for measurements at the molecular scale.

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Invented independently in 1926 by a German, Debye, and an American, Giauque, it was first used by Giauque and MacDougall in 1933, to reach a temperature of 0.