LDF vs. Van Der Waals
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LDF vs. Van Der Waals
Are London dispersion forces and van der waals forces truly the same? I oddly recall them being taught as two separate forces but they seem to be interchangeable within this course?
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
Ya based off what lavelle said in class it seems like it just depends on where you and varies from textbook to textbook because there is the also induced dipole-induced dipole
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
Yes, LDF and Van der Waal forces are the same. As professor Lavelle said in lecture, they are also referred to as induced-dipole-induced-dipole.
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
LDFs and Van der Waals are different names for the same forces. Induced-dipole Induced-dipole is also another term that refers to these same forces.
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
The two terms can be used interchangeably. Both refer to a temporary attractive force that results when the electrons in two adjacent atoms occupy positions that make the atoms from temporary dipoles :)
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
They are both the same thing and refer to the same force. I think that LDF is used more than Van Der Waals, but since they are the same thing it doesn't really matter how you refer to them.
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
LDFs are sometimes called Van Der Waals. London dispersion forces are defined as the intermolecular forces that occur between atoms and between non polar molecules as a result of the motion of electrons while van der Waals forces are the weakest intermolecular force and consist of dipole-dipole forces and dispersion forces. They are interchangeable and are both the weakest forces.
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
Yes, London Dispersion Forces, Van Der Waals, and induced dipole induced dipole are all interchangeable names for the same intermolecular force.
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
Yes, the two are the same and can be interchanged. They are the weakest intermolecular forces that can be found whenever any atom is bound to another.
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
Yes, London Dispersion Forces and Van Der Waals can be used interchangeably. They both refer to the forces that all molecules experience towards each other.
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
Yes, what everyone is saying is correct. Those terms are the same and they are interchangeable.
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
I remember learning LDF as Van Der Waals in high school chemistry, but I believe they are the same thing... there's just lots of different names for this particular force :)
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
London Dispersion Forces have a bunch of different names, including Van der Waals!
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
With these names, you can use them interchangeably since they are exactly the same thing. We have these 2 names because some scientists perfer using different names.
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Re: LDF vs. Van Der Waals
Both can be used interchangeably along with induced dipole-induced dipole to refer to the same force!
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