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Bohr radius

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[bawr rey-dee-uhs] / ˈbɔr ˌreɪ di əs /

noun

Physics.

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

Etymology

Origin of Bohr radius

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

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Throughout this work, we maintained a small, positive average scattering length adc = 5a0, where a0 is the Bohr radius.

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