VAN DER Waals Forces
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Atomic Structure and Interatomic Bonding — Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction▶ 1:16And these hairs interact with surfaces using really weak forcesWe call them van der Waals forcesWow, weak forces doing such heavy liftingNucleic Acids — Principles of Biochemistry▶ 9:35Yes, it creates a hydrophobic or water -fearing interiorAnd inside that dry core, the electron clouds of those stacked flat bases interact with each other through van der Waals forcesBut aren't van der Waals forces even weaker than hydrogen bondsGroup 17 — Cambridge International AS and A Level Chemistry▶ 3:21Because these are simple moleculesThe only things holding them together are these weak forces called van der Waals forcesSo why are those forces so much stronger in solid iodine than they are in, say, gaseous fluorine