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van der Waals force comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
force quantity	quantity	Agency responsible for a change in a system. In Newtonian mechanics, gravitational force bends the moon away from the straight trajectory it would otherwise pursue.
van der Waals force	force quantity	The relatively weak attractive force operative between neutral atoms and molecules.

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