Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910 "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids." Van der Waals started hi
Van der Waals in 1910
Van der Waals force
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In molecular physics and chemistry, the van der Waals force is a distance-dependent interaction between atoms or molecules and one of the category of intermolecular force. Unlike ionic or covalent bon
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
…Waals equation, an equation of state that describes the behavior of gases and their condensation to the liquid phase. His name is also associated with van der Waals forces (forces between stable molecules), with van der Waals molecules (small molecular clusters bound by van der Waals forces), and with the van der Waals…
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