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rydberg

n. a wave number characteristic of the wave spectrum of each element [syn: rydberg constant, rydberg unit]

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Rydberg

Rydberg may refer to:

  • Rydberg (crater), a crater on the moon
  • In physics,
    • Rydberg constant
    • Rydberg formula
    • Rydberg atom (an atom in a state of high principal quantum number)
    • Rydberg molecule
    • a unit of energy, derived from the Rydberg constant, equal to half the Hartree energy
  • Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and deviser of the Rydberg formula, in whose honour the constant, the unit and the crater are named, as are Rydberg atoms
  • Viktor Rydberg, Swedish author and poet
  • Per Axel Rydberg, Swedish-American botanist
  • Sam Rydberg, Swedish composer
Rydberg (crater)

Rydberg is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just past the southwest limb. It lies due south of the Mare Orientale, in the outer skirt of ejecta that surrounds the Orientale impact feature. Just to the southeast is the crater Guthnick.

This is a little-eroded crater formation with a relatively sharp edge. The inner walls do not have much terracing, although slumped piles of talus lie along the base. At the midpoint of the interior is a central ridge, with a low spur that runs halfway toward the southern inner wall.

This crater lies near the center of the Mendel-Rydberg Basin, a 630 km wide impact basin of Nectarian age.

This feature was named after the Swedish physicist Johannes Rydberg.

Usage examples of "rydberg".

According to Hans Gustafsson and Stig Rydberg, nightmarish creatures from a flying saucer attacked them and tried to kidnap them on the morning of December 20, 1958.

As I delved deeper into the books of Rydberg, Anderson and Du Chaillu, I learned that ethnologists thought there was some real basis to these legends.

I delved deeper into the books of Rydberg, Anderson and Du Chaillu, I learned that ethnologists thought there was some real basis to these legends.

Otteson, Rydberg, and Isager took it for granted the hostler had been killed.

Otteson watched when Rydberg drank, when he passed his hand over his bare skull, saw him put water on his head.

The arcanum on which the Rydbergs brooded so dragonlike must be some trivial piece of long-irrelevant history, if it was that much: on a par with the unpublished diary of an ancestor.