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Kobotan [32]
3 years ago
15

The ease with which the charge distribution in a molecule can be distorted by an external electrical field is called the _______

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Physics
1 answer:
Trava [24]3 years ago
5 0
It is called polarizability. A dipole moment is needed for the molecule or atom due to the distortion of the electron cloud. A dipole is a pair of electrical charges that have opposite signs and during a dipole moment two charges separate.
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