DEBYE


Meaning of DEBYE in English

[ də'bʌɪ ]

■ noun Chemistry a unit of measurement used to express electric dipole moments of molecules, equal to 3.336 × 10 -30 coulomb metre.

Origin

early 20th cent.: named after the Dutch-born US physicist Peter Debye .

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