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Bohr radius

[ bawr rey-dee-uhs ]

noun

, Physics.
  1. (in the Bohr atom of the Bohr model ) the radius of the electron orbit having the lowest energy.


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Origin of Bohr radius1

First recorded in 1955–60; named after Danish physicist Niels Bohr

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