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The absolute permittivity of a medium is its relative permittivity multiplied by the vacuum permittivity.

The absolute permittivity is a proportionality constant between the electric and displacement field with units of Farad/meters (in SI units). This number is usually very small (e.g. for air: 0.000 000 000 008 85 F/m).

The relative permittivity is a unit-less number scaled upward to present nicer numbers (e.g. for air: 1.0005).

To get the absolute permittivity from the relative permittivity one should multiply with the vacuum permittivity: 8.85418781... E-12 F/m.

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Absolute permittivity is a measure of a material's ability to store electrical energy in an electric field, while relative permittivity is a ratio of the absolute permittivity of a material to the absolute permittivity of a vacuum. Relative permittivity indicates how well a material can store electrical energy compared to a vacuum.

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