debye
/dəˈbaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "The dipole moments of water and the alcohols are about 1.8 debyes. The moments of ethers are smaller, about 1.2 debyes."
- "There is considerable transfer of negative charge to the carbon atoms in the pyrrole ring, which give it a high dipole moment ≈ 1.8 Debyes."
- "The corresponding results obtained here for #92;mu of benzaldehyde range 1.298 Debyes — 1.471 Debyes, where the lower reported experimental value corresponds to the gas phase one of 1.263 Debyes, which is in good correspondence with the #92;mu calculated at MP4 level (1.298 Debyes)."
Etymology
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Phrases
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Debye-Falkenhagen effect
Debye-Hückel theory
Debye length
Debye model
Debye radius
Debye-Scherrer method
Debye-Scherrer ring
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Peter Debye
physicist and physical chemist