Question

Water has a ____________ dielectric constant.

Answer 1

Water:

1. Water has a dielectric constant that is unlike any other substance.
2. A high dielectric constant indicates the solvent's ability to screen charges.
3. A material's dielectric constant is equal to the ratio of its permittivity to the permittivity of free space. Because it is the ratio of two similar entities, it is a unitless and dimensionless quantity.