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Van der Waals Forces
 
Definition: Any of the noncovalent attractive or repulsive forces acting upon neutral atoms or molecules.
They include (but are not limited to) van der Waals repulsion, London dispersion forces, dipole-dipole, dipole-induced dipole, and entropic effects such as hydrophobicity.
  
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Hydrogen Bond
Hydrophobic
Covalent Bond
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References
Alchemy, The Next Generation
Surface Wetting

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