van der Waals volume

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van der Waals volume (plural van der Waals volumes)

  1. (physics) The volume occupied by an individual atom or molecule. For a single atom, it is the volume of a sphere whose radius is the van der Waals radius of the atom:
    Hyponyms: atomic volume, molecular volume
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