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Noun: Coulomb's Law
  1. A fundamental principle of electrostatics; the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the distance between them; principle also holds for magnetic poles

Type of: law, law of nature

Encyclopedia: Coulomb's Law