Debye noun.
[dǝ'bʌɪ] In sense 2 usu. debye.
E20.[Peter J. W.
Debye (1884-1966), Dutch physicist.]
Physics.
I. 1. Used
attrib. and in
comb. to designate concepts and methods arising out of Debye's work.
E20.Debye-Scherrer method
['ʃɛrǝ] [Paul H. Scherrer (1890-1969), Swiss physicist]: for obtaining X-ray diffraction patterns of powdered crystalline samples.
Debye temperature a temperature used to characterize crystalline solids in Debye's theory of specific heats, corresponding to excitation of all lattice vibrations of the maximum allowed frequency.
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