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polarizability
n. (context physics English) The relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external electric field
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Polarizability
Polarizability is the ability to form instantaneous dipoles.It is a property of matter. Polarizabilities determine the dynamical response of a bound system to external fields, and provide insight into a molecule's internal structure.
Usage examples of "polarizability".
Her mother was in the living room, in front of the fire, reading to Charles Wallace, not from books about trains, or animals, which the twins had liked at that age, but from a scientific magazine, an article called “The Polarizabilities and HyperPolarizabilities of Small Molecules,” by the theoretical chemist, Peter Liebmann.