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What is a dipole?

What is a dipole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles)
  2. (chemistry) any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges
  3. (radio) a dipole antenna
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Van der Waals forces are the attractive forces of one transient dipole for another.
Transmitter and receiver are supplied fully enclosed in housings measuring 45 x 55 x 15 mm with connectors for external dipole antennas.
Any diatomic molecule that has a polar bond also will show a molecular dipole moment.
With stronger dipole magnets, an accelerator can push particles to much higher relativistic energies around the same-sized circular beam path.
Bond dipole is the unit of measure that chemists use to describe the amount of polarity in a polar bond.
The longer the peptide, the less important is the effect of the helical dipole.

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