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    [Plural noun]  | "van der Waals forces" | \ ˈvan-dər-ˌwȯlz- \


    1: 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


    Origin: 1939 ;

     After Johannes Diderik van der Waals †1923 Dutch physicist, who postulated the existence of such a force;

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