VAN DER WAALS FORCES


Meaning of VAN DER WAALS FORCES in English

[van der Waals forces] n pl [Johannes D. van der Waals d. 1923 Du. physicist] (1926): the relatively weak attractive forces that act on neutral atoms and molecules and that arise because of the electric polarization induced in each of the particles by the presence of other particles

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