Van der Waals Force is weak, short-range electrostatic attractive forces between uncharged molecules, arising from the interaction of permanent or transient electric dipole moments that attracts neutral molecules to one another in gases, in liquefied and solidified gases, and in almost all organic liquids and solids. These forces differ from chemical bonding because they result from fluctuations in charge density of particles.

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