van der waal's forces

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   relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles

   Broaderattraction

Questions about van der waal's forces

What does van der waal's forces mean?

van der waal's forces means "relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles".

Is van der waal's forces a common word?

van der waal's forces is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.