dipole

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(Such as dipole-dipole, hydrogen bonding, or London-dispertion) a) water and food coloring

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  1. noun Physics A pair of electric charges or magnetic poles, of equal magnitude but of opposite sign or polarity, separated by a small distance.
  2. noun Chemistry A molecule having two such charges or poles.
  3. noun Electronics An antenna, usually fed from the center, consisting of two equal rods extending outward in a straight line.

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  • I had a Johnson Adventurer on one dipole, and an ARC-5 on another. —  eHam.net News
  • When the dipole is in a positive phase sea-water off the Sumatra-Java coast, northwest of Australia, tends to be cooler than normal, leading to a reduction in the rain-bearing systems that normally extend to Victoria during spring. —  Medindia Health News
  • The influences of dipole-dipole interaction and detuning on the sudden death of entanglement between two atoms in the Tavis-Cummings model —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The influences of dipole-dipole interaction and detuning on the entanglement between two atoms with different initial tripartite entangled W-like states in the Tavis-Cummings model have been investigated by means of Wootters 'concurrence, respectively. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The results show that the entanglement between the two atoms can be enhanced via appropriately tuning the strength of dipole-dipole interaction of two atoms or the detunings between atom and cavity, and the so-called sudden death effect can be weakened simultaneously. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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