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The relative static permittivity of a solvent is a relative measure of its chemical polarity. For example, water is very polar, and has a relative static permittivity of 80.10 at 20 °C while n-hexane is non-polar, and has a relative static permittivity of 1.89 at 20 °C. [26]
In electromagnetism, the Clausius–Mossotti relation, named for O. F. Mossotti and Rudolf Clausius, expresses the dielectric constant (relative permittivity, ε r) of a material in terms of the atomic polarizability, α, of the material's constituent atoms and/or molecules, or a homogeneous mixture thereof.
The relative permittivity of a material can be found by a variety of static electrical measurements. The complex permittivity is evaluated over a wide range of frequencies by using different variants of dielectric spectroscopy , covering nearly 21 orders of magnitude from 10 −6 to 10 15 hertz .
In terms of relative permeability, the magnetic susceptibility is χ m = μ r − 1. {\displaystyle \chi _{m}=\mu _{r}-1.} The number χ m is a dimensionless quantity , sometimes called volumetric or bulk susceptibility, to distinguish it from χ p ( magnetic mass or specific susceptibility) and χ M ( molar or molar mass susceptibility).
Vacuum permittivity, commonly denoted ε 0 (pronounced "epsilon nought" or "epsilon zero"), is the value of the absolute dielectric permittivity of classical vacuum. It may also be referred to as the permittivity of free space , the electric constant , or the distributed capacitance of the vacuum.
Solvents with a dielectric constant (more accurately, relative static permittivity) greater than 15 (i.e. polar or polarizable) can be further divided into protic and aprotic. Protic solvents, such as water, solvate anions (negatively charged solutes) strongly via hydrogen bonding.
In electricity (electromagnetism), the electric susceptibility (; Latin: susceptibilis "receptive") is a dimensionless proportionality constant that indicates the degree of polarization of a dielectric material in response to an applied electric field.
where ε 0 is the electric constant, ε r the relative static permittivity, and P is the polarization density. Substituting this form for D in the expression for displacement current, it has two components: