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VDW
(redirected from van der Waals)

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vdWVan Der Waals (atomic force; molecular modeling)
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VDWVertex Diffracted Wave


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These hairs, when in close contact with a surface, induce intermolecular attractive forces called van der Waals forces between themselves and the surface (SN: 7/15/00, p.
By his ingenious investigations, it was given to our countryman Van der Waals to shed the full light of theory on the deviations from Boyle's law and on the continuity of the gaseous and the liquid state, and to explain this from the motion of molecules.
Indeed, the total amount of van der Waals bonding, directly related to the distribution function, as expected from the filler-filler network/model govern the physical properties of the filled rubber compounds.
 
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