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Named after Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A gas law which generalizes the ideal gas law to non-ideal gases, taking into account intermolecular forces and the size of molecules. Full definition →
Named after Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.