MY DEAR PROF. TAIT,—I gather from your letter of September 28 (NATURE, October 8, p. 546) that you admit the correctness of Van der Waals's deduction from the virial equation (1) when the particles ...
The van der Waals equation of state is based on a simple, but realistic, physical model and therefore always yields physically meaningful results. Its quantitative deficiencies are due to the ...
Van der Waals forces act like a sort of quantum glue on all types of matter. Using a new measuring technique, scientists experimentally determined for the first time all of the key details of how ...