See Also: Madelung(dictionary)
Madelung's deformity(medicine)
Madelung's disease(medicine)
Madelung's neck(medicine)
Madelung, Otto(medicine)
madelung deformity(medicine)

Madelung (iou)



Madelung noun. M20.
[Erwin Madelung (1881-1972), German physicist.]
Physical Chemistry.
Madelung constant, a value associated with an ionic crystalline solid and representing the sum of the potential energy of electrostatic attraction between all the ions of the lattice. M20.
Madelung potential, the potential at any point in an ionic lattice due to the combined electric field of all the ions in the lattice. M20.