Clausius–Mossotti relation
Ecuación de Clausius-Mossoti
- Date
- 1850 · confidence medium
- Place
- Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
- Credited to
- Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti (1850); rediscovered by Rudolf Clausius (1879)
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
An electromagnetism relation expressing a material's dielectric constant in terms of the atomic polarizability of its constituents, formulated by Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti and later rediscovered by Rudolf Clausius.
What it led to
- Lorentz–Lorenz equation for refractive index
- Study of dielectric polarization in materials
- Capacitor and dielectric material design
- Solid-state physics