Van der Waals or Van der Waal may refer to:
People
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Fransje van der Waals (born 1950), Dutch medical physician
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Grace VanderWaal
Grace Avery VanderWaal (born January 15, 2004) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She is known for her distinctive voice and has often accompanied herself on the ukulele.
VanderWaal began her musical career by posting videos of her o ...
(born 2004), American singer-songwriter
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Henk van der Waal (born 1960), Dutch poet
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Joan van der Waals (1920–2022), Dutch physicist
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (; 23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910 "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids". Van der Waals started his car ...
(1837–1923), Dutch physicist
* (1912–1950), Dutch spy, in German service during World War II (see Dutch resistance)
Physics
There are a series of subjects named after Johannes Diderik van der Waals:
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Van der Waals force
In molecular physics and chemistry, the van der Waals force (sometimes van der Waals' force) is a distance-dependent interaction between atoms or molecules. Unlike ionic or covalent bonds, these attractions do not result from a chemical elec ...
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Van der Waals equation
The van der Waals equation is a mathematical formula that describes the behavior of real gases. It is an equation of state that relates the pressure, volume, Avogadro's law, number of molecules, and temperature in a fluid. The equation modifies ...
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Van der Waals molecule
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Van der Waals radius
The van der Waals radius, ''r'', of an atom is the radius of an imaginary hard sphere representing the distance of closest approach for another atom.
It is named after Johannes Diderik van der Waals, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics ...
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Van der Waals surface
The van der Waals surface of a molecule is an abstract representation or model of that molecule, illustrating where, in very rough terms, a surface might reside for the molecule based on the hard cutoffs of van der Waals radii for individual ...
Other uses
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Van der Waals (crater)
Van der Waals is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater on the Far side (Moon), far side of the Moon. It is a heavily eroded feature with an irregular outer rim. The edge is lowest along the southern side where it is little more than a circular cre ...
, named after the physicist
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Mona Vanderwaal, ''Pretty Little Liars'' character
See also
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Van der Wal, surname
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