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ryd⋅berg

[rid-burg]
–noun Physics.
a unit of energy used in atomic physics, equal to 13.606 electron-volts. Abbreviation: ry

Origin:
named for Johannes Robert Rydberg (1854–1919), Swedish physicist
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noun
a wave number characteristic of the wave spectrum of each element 
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