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debye

[dih-bahy]

noun Electricity.

a unit of measure for electric dipole moments, equal to 10^–18 statcoulomb-centimeters. Abbreviation: D

Origin:
1930–35; named after P. J. W. Debye

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Pe·ter Jo·seph Wil·helm

[pey-tuhr yoh-sef vil-helm] , 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel prize for chemistry 1936.

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Debye (Dutch deˈbɛiə)

—n
	Peter Joseph Wilhelm. 1884--1966, Dutch chemist and physicist, working in the US: Nobel prize for chemistry (1936) for his work on dipole moments

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