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Van der Waals Forces and Colloid Stability

Richard M. Pashley, Marilyn E. Karaman

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This chapter contains sections titled: Historical development of van der Waals forces and the Lennard-Jones potential Dispersion forces Retarded forces Van de Waals forces between macroscopic bodies Theory of the Hamaker constant Use of Hamaker constants The DLVO theory of colloid stability Flocculation Some notes on van der Waals forces Industrial Report: Surface chemistry in water treatment Sample problems

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Key concepts: Hamaker constant, DLVO theory, van der Waals force, London dispersion force, Van der Waals surface, Colloid, Van der Waals radius, Chemistry