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|date = 2013}}</ref> {{IPA-nl|dəˈbɛiə|lang}}) is a [[CGS]] unit<ref>[http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/cgsmks.html CGS units] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809085056/http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/cgsmks.html |date=2011-08-09 }} R. Rowlett (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).</ref> (a non-[[SI]] [[metric system|metric]] unit) of [[electric dipole moment]]<ref group=note>Two equal and opposite charges separated by some distance constitute an electric dipole. This dipole possesses an [[electric dipole moment]] whose value is given as charge times length of separation
: '''p''' = ''q'''''r'''.</ref> named in honour of the physicist [[Peter J. W. Debye]]. It is defined as {{val|e=-18}} [[statcoulomb]]-[[centimetre]]s.<ref group=note name=statC>The statcoulomb is also known as the franklin or electrostatic unit of charge.
: 1 statC = 1 Fr = 1 esu = 1 cm<sup>3/2</sup>⋅g<sup>1/2</sup>⋅s<sup>−1</sup>.</ref> Historically the debye was defined as the dipole moment resulting from two charges of opposite sign but an equal magnitude of 10<sup>−10</sup> statcoulomb<ref group=note>10<sup>−10</sup> statcoulomb corresponds to approximately 0.2083 units of elementary charge.</ref> (generally called e.s.u. (electrostatic unit) in older scientific literature), which were separated by 1 [[ångström]].<ref group=note>The ångström is within an order of magnitude of the nuclear separation for a typical [[covalent bond]].
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