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- The capacitance of a capacitor is enhanced by
- the placement of a dielectric between the two
- plates of the capacitor. Dielectrics work by using
- the electric field between the two plates to align
- molecular electric dipoles. Since the potential is
- proportional to the electric field, the potential
- is lowered . The factor by which it is lowered
- is called the dielectric constant k .
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