«This is
the largest electric dipole moment ever observed in a molecule,» says James Shaffer, professor in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, OU College of Arts and Sciences.
Not exact matches
The molecules also exhibited very strong
dipole moments — strong imbalances in
electric charge within molecules that mediate magnet - like forces between molecules over
large distances.
A unique property of the molecule is the
large permanent
dipole moment, which reacts with an
electric field much like a bar magnet reacts with a magnetic field.
«These
electric dipoles interact with each other over fairly
large distances, a good fraction of a micron, or 1,000 nanometres.