van der Waals equation
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Etymology[edit]
Named after Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals.
Proper noun[edit]
- (chemistry) A gas law which generalizes the ideal gas law to non-ideal gases, taking into account intermolecular forces and the size of molecules.
- , where and are constants experimentally determined for a particular gas.
- Synonym: van der Waals law