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electric constant [i¦lek·trik ′kän·stənt] (electricity) The permittivity of empty space, equal to 1 in centimeter-gram-second electrostatic units and to 107/4πc2farads per meter or, numerically, to 8.854 × 10-12farad per meter in International System units, wherecis the speed of light in meters per second. Symbolized ε0. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In Japan and Russia, scientists are levitating masses with superconductors; in Germany, experimenters are debugging a vacuum Faraday system, whereby gold atoms beamed onto a collector yield an electric constant, from which an Avogadro number can be derived. |
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