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Polarity vs Polarizability - What's the difference?

polarity | polarizability |

As nouns the difference between polarity and polarizability

is that polarity is the separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles while polarizability is (physics) the relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external electric field.

polarity

English

(wikipedia polarity)

Noun

(polarities)
  • The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
  • Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
  • (chemistry) The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule.

    • polarizability

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia polarizability) (polarizabilities)
  • (physics) The relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external electric field