(electricity) A quantity characteristic of a charge distribution, equal to the vector sum over the electric charges of the product of the charge and the position vector of the charge.
electric dipole moment
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 | debye (electricity) |
| dipolar gas (physical chemistry) |
| nonpolar (chemistry) |
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- debye (electricity)
- dipolar gas (physical chemistry)
- nonpolar (chemistry)
- polar molecule (physical chemistry)
- abcoulomb centimeter (electricity)
- induced moment (electricity)
- molecular dipole (physical chemistry)
- molecular polarizability (physical chemistry)
- nonpolar solvent (materials)
- polarizability (electricity)
- dipole moment
- franklin centimeter (electricity)
- electric moment
- Langevin function (electromagnetism)
