limit, , by Taylor expanding the exponential:

This approximation yields the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equation

which also is known as the Debye-Hückel equation:The second term on the right-hand side vanishes for systems that are electrically neutral. The term in parentheses divided by has the units of an inverse length squared, and bydimensional analysis leads to the definition of the

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