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The relative permittivity (in older texts, dielectric constant) is the permittivity of a material expressed as a ratio with the electric permittivity of a vacuum. A dielectric is an insulating material, and the dielectric constant of an insulator measures the ability of the insulator to store electric energy in an electrical field.
Dielectric constant [2] 88.00 at 0 °C 86.04 at 5 °C 84.11 at 10 °C 82.22 at 15 °C 80.36 at 20 °C 78.54 at 25 °C 76.75 at 30 °C ... Over liquid water.
Water is an excellent solvent due to its high dielectric constant. [67] Substances that mix well and dissolve in water are known as hydrophilic ("water-loving") substances, while those that do not mix well with water are known as hydrophobic ("water-fearing") substances. [68]
A liquid dielectric is a dielectric material in liquid state. Its main purpose is to prevent or rapidly quench electric discharges . Dielectric liquids are used as electrical insulators in high voltage applications, e.g. transformers , capacitors , high voltage cables , and switchgear (namely high voltage switchgear ).
Another common term encountered for both absolute and relative permittivity is the dielectric constant which has been deprecated in physics and engineering [2] as well as in chemistry. [ 3 ] By definition, a perfect vacuum has a relative permittivity of exactly 1 whereas at standard temperature and pressure , air has a relative permittivity of ...
The dielectric constant of water decreases with increasing temperature to about 55 at 100 °C and about 5 at the critical temperature (217.7 °C). [15] Thus ion pairing will become more significant in superheated water. Solvents with a dielectric constant in the range, roughly, 20–40, show extensive ion-pair formation.
The isoelectric point (pI, pH(I), IEP), is the pH at which a molecule carries no net electrical charge or is electrically neutral in the statistical mean. The standard nomenclature to represent the isoelectric point is pH(I). [1] However, pI is also used. [2] For brevity, this article uses pI.
The Bjerrum length (after Danish chemist Niels Bjerrum 1879–1958 [1]) is the separation at which the electrostatic interaction between two elementary charges is comparable in magnitude to the thermal energy scale, , where is the Boltzmann constant and is the absolute temperature in kelvins.