Bohr Radius -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Bohr Radius

In cgs

where is h-bar, is the electron mass, c is the speed of light, is the fine structure constant, and e is the charge on the electron. In MKS,

where is the permittivity of free space. The numerical value is often expressed as Å.