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Bohr radius

[ bawr rey-dee-uhs ]

noun

, Physics.
  1. (in the Bohr atom of the Bohr model ) the radius of the electron orbit having the lowest energy.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Bohr radius1

First recorded in 1955–60; named after Danish physicist Niels Bohr
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Example Sentences

Throughout this work, we maintained a small, positive average scattering length adc = 5a0, where a0 is the Bohr radius.

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