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Named after Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist Peter Debye.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
debye
Today it means: 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. Full definition →