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dielectric constant is a property of a material, this question is asking the property of a two mixed together, in an undeclared ratio. But yes dielectric constants can be measured. The problem you will have is keeping a uniform mix.

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Which dielectric in this world has highest dielectric constant?

Strontium Titanate has a dielectric constant of 233. TDK in Japan makes Ultra-high Voltage Ceramic Capacitors using this as the dielectric material. Compared to distilled water at 76.7 - 78.2 (lowers as temperature rises). Types of glass can vary between 4 and 10.


What is dielectric constant?

A dielectric is an insulating material that does not conduct electricity and is transparent to an electromagnetic field. Dielectric materials are used to separate conducting surfaces such as the plates inside a capacitor, wires inside transformers, electric cable conductors, and elsewhere in the electric industry where electrical separation of charged elements is necessary. The dielectric constant is a ratio of the capacitance of a capacitor in which a particular insulating material is the dielectric, to the capacitance of the capacitor in which a vacuum is the dielectric.


Why is water the enemy of insulation?

Water decreases the overall thermal performance of the insulation, also water may just short circuit around the insulation and render it useless.Water, if present on dielectric surface, due its high conductivity decreases the surface resistivity of the dielectric, thus causes high creepage current (surface current).


What is a dielectric?

In physics, a dielectric is an insulating (or very poorly conducting) material. The material can be solid, liquid or gaseous. When a voltage difference is applied to top and bottom of a cylinder filled with a dielectric, no current will flow inside the cylinder because, unlike metals, a dielectric has no free-or loosely bound-electrons that can drift through the material. Instead, electric polarization occurs. The positive charges within the dielectric are displaced minutely in the direction of lower voltage, and the negative charges are displaced minutely in the opposite direction. When the molecules constituting the dielectric are polar (like water molecules), the molecules will align in the field, thus contributing to the electric polarization. Inside the cylinder no net charge density will arise because the charges in adjacent volume elements cancel. However, at the top and bottom of the cylinder an uncanceled surface charge will appear, and this surface charge (positive at the low voltage side and negative at the high voltage side) will oppose the electric field associated with the voltage difference. Thus, the polarization of the dielectric reduces the electric field inside the dielectric. Dielectric material is characterized by an intrinsic property called relative permittivity, usually denoted by εr (formerly this was known as the dielectric constant). The relative permittivity describes the ease of the polarization of the material and determines the size of the surface charge densities at the top and bottom of the cylinder. The Coulomb force between two permanent electric point charges placed inside a dielectric medium is 1/εr smaller than it would be in a vacuum due to the polarization of the dielectric medium by the point charges. The quantity of electric energy stored per unit volume of a dielectric medium is proportional to εr. The capacitance of a capacitor filled with a dielectric is a factor εr greater than it would be in vacuum. Reference: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/DielectricDielectric is a substance that can transport electricity without conducting it.


Is the heat content of a system at a constant pressure?

Yes it is possible, for example when water freezes there is a point when the temperature remains constant however energy is released as the water condenses.

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What is relative permittivity if dielectric constant of water is 80.10?

'Dielectric constant' is an archaic term for relative permittivity. They are one and the same.


What is the effect of dielectric constant of water on the solubility of the ionic salt?

Water has a very high dielectric constant so when an ionic salt is placed in water it ionizes and water molecules react with ions of solute and make a solution


What are some examples of a chemical property for water?

It has a very high dielectric constant


How water is dielectric constant?

The dielectric constant of water varies with temperature and is approximated by this polynomial equation: E = 87.740 - 0.40008*t + 9.398*(10^-4)*t^2 - 1.410*(10^-6)*t^3


Why do polar substance have a high dielectric constant?

Water, due to its polar nature, has a large dielectric constant. Therefore, water molecule has a very large electric dipole moment and is forced to rotate to respond to an alternate external electric field. Hence water as a liquid has a very large dielectric constant i.e. 80. Mica on the other hand is less polar as water and hence has low dielectric constant.


Which dielectric in this world has highest dielectric constant?

Strontium Titanate has a dielectric constant of 233. TDK in Japan makes Ultra-high Voltage Ceramic Capacitors using this as the dielectric material. Compared to distilled water at 76.7 - 78.2 (lowers as temperature rises). Types of glass can vary between 4 and 10.


What is the much more polar solvent?

Formamide is the most polar solvent. It has a dipole moment of 3.73 and a dielectric constant of 109. As a comparison, water has a dipole moment of 1.85 and a dielectric constant of 80. The higher the dipole moment value and the dielectric constant, the more polar the solvent. At the opposite, the less polar solvents are hexane, benzene and carbontetrachloride.


What is dielectric constant?

A dielectric is an insulating material that does not conduct electricity and is transparent to an electromagnetic field. Dielectric materials are used to separate conducting surfaces such as the plates inside a capacitor, wires inside transformers, electric cable conductors, and elsewhere in the electric industry where electrical separation of charged elements is necessary. The dielectric constant is a ratio of the capacitance of a capacitor in which a particular insulating material is the dielectric, to the capacitance of the capacitor in which a vacuum is the dielectric.


Why does water dissolve things well?

this is because water has a high dielectric constant of about 81.thus it can break the forces of attraction in most substances.


How does a grain moisture tester work?

Moisture meters use what is often referred to as the capacitive method or RF dielectric method. With this method a radio signal at a specified frequency is sent through the sample. As water interacts with radio waves (that's how your microwave oven works) it is possible to determine the moisture content by measuring how much the radio signal is changed by the sample. The effect that the sample has on the radio signal is termed the dielectric constant, and it increases proportionally to the moisture content. There are a number of other factors that have an effect on the dielectric constant, perhaps most notably sample density and temperature. These two factors are measured and corrected for in advanced moisture meters.


Why do sodium ions and chloride ions remain dissociated in the blood?

Blood has a sufficiently high proportion of water to have a large enough dielectric constant to promote the dissociation of the ions.


Why water is not used as a dielectric medium?

Water is a fine dielectric. One of the main issues is that it ionizes certain materials. If it comes in contact with metals, some ions may be leached into the water. This thus raises the conductivity of the water. Good dielectrics are bad conductors. This helps the capacitor store more charge. If the water becomes conductive, it fails as a good dielectric.