Table of Van der Waals constants; Van der Waals constants; List of Van der Waals constants
Waals
n. Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923), Nederlands natuurkundige, winnaar van de Nobelprijs in 1910 in fysica; familienaam
Definition
van der Waals forces
[?van d?'w?:lz, 'v?:lz]
¦ plural noun Chemistry weak, short-range electrostatic attractive forces between uncharged molecules, arising from the interaction of permanent or transient electric dipole moments.
Origin
C19: named after the Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals.