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billybobsky
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2006-07-26, 19:56

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Originally Posted by Windswept
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Originally Posted by first Bbc story
The so-called van der Waals forces occur between molecules with different electrical charge and cause them to be attracted to one another.
Bwah! I hate it when technical writers get the technical details wrong... I mean, wtf are they paid for if they can't get the only specialized aspect of their career right???

FWIW, van der waals interactions are interactions that exist REGARDLESS of charge, they are due to spontaneous dipole moments that occur when molecules are near by...
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