The London—van der Waals attraction between spherical particles

H.C. Hamaker, London-vander Waals forces in collo dal systems, to appear shortly in Rec. Trav. Chim. des Pays-Bas.

Bradley, 1932, Phil. Mag., 13, 853, 10.1080/14786449209461990

The last formula on page 856.

Polanyi, 1930, Naturwissenschaften, 18, 1099

de Boer, 1936, See Trans. Faraday Soc., 32, 21

Compare the paper announced in note 1.

Besides London-van der Waals forces are due to: polarisatior of the atom. If the forces are strong the polarisation with respect to one particle will influence the polarisability with respect to the second particle. In this respect equation (25) must be considered as a first approximation.

London, 1936, Z. physik. Chem. B, 11, 246

1936, Compare Trans. Faraday Soc., 32, 118

Mayer, 1933, J. chem. Physics, I, 278

London, 1937, Trans. Faraday Soc., 33, 19, 10.1039/tf937330008b