debye
unit of measurement
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The Debye unit, often shortened to debye, is a unit of electric moment. It is equivalent to 10−18 statcoulomb-centimeters. This unit is named after the physical chemist Peter Debye, who received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into dipole moments, X-rays, and light scattering. Debye's research advanced the understanding of atomic arrangements within molecules and the distances between atoms.12
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