van der Waals equation

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Named after Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals.

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the van der Waals equation

  1. (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
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