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  debye

  noun

  a unit of measure for electric dipole moments, equal to 10 –18 statcoulomb-centimeters. D
• Debye
  Debye

  noun

  Peter Joseph Wilhelm 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936.

debye

¹ American  

[dih-bahy] / dɪˈbaɪ /

noun

Electricity.

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

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Debye ² American  

[de-bahy] / dɛˈbaɪ /

noun

1. Peter Joseph Wilhelm 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936.

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Debye British  

/ deˈbɛiə /

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of debye

First recorded in 1930–35; named after P. J. W. Debye

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In 1923, the chemists Peter Debye and Erich Hückel proposed a theory to explain the apparent incomplete ionization of strong electrolytes.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

In Pittsburgh last September Chemist Debye pointed out to the American Chemical Society that water has a quasi-crystalline structure, therefore resembles a diamond more closely in arrangement than it resembles its own gaseous form, steam.

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Dr. Debye has done powerful work on the conduction of electricity by salt solutions, the electrical properties of insulators, the heat capacities of solids, the atomic architecture of molecules.

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Cornell's Peter Debye, 68, Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist, author of the Debye theory of the specific heat of solids.

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Prizeman Debye will receive about $40,000, Prizemen Anderson & Hess each half that sum.

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