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Dipole moment refers to the quality of a system to behave like a dipole. This could be: The Earths magnetic field, which is approximately a dipole. ...

Electrical dipole moment, the measure of the electrical polarity of a system of charges
Transition dipole moment, the electrical dipole moment in quantum mechanics
Magnetic dipole moment, the measure of the magnetic polarity of a system of charges
Bond dipole moment, the measure of polarity in a molecule
Electron electric dipole moment, the measure of the charge distribution within an electron

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Category: Disambiguation In physics, the electric dipole moment is a measure of the polarity of a system of electric charges. ... The Transition dipole moment or just Transition moment, is a term usually denoted . ... In physics, the magnetic moment of an object is a vector relating the aligning torque in a magnetic field experienced by the object to the field vector itself. ... The bond dipole moment is a measure for the polarity of a chemical bond within a molecule. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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Torque on an Electric Dipole (316 words)
	is the magnitude of the electric dipole moment.
	The tendency of the electric field to align the dipole moment with itself is confirmed by the potential energy formula.
	The potential energy is lowest when the dipole moment is aligned with the field and highest when the two are anti-aligned.

D - Glossary of chemical terms (830 words)
	Dipole moments are often stated in debyes; The SI unit is the coulomb metre.
	In a diatomic molecule, such as HCl, the dipole moment is a measure of the polar nature of the bond; i.e.
	In a polyatomic molecule, the dipole moment is the vector sum of the dipole moments of the individual bonds.

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