How to pronounce “waal” in English

They're van der Waals forces, and they're not really bonded to each other.

This is a study that Frans de Waal did with Capuchin monkeys.

Do I have Van der Waals forces that are strong enough to connect me to the wall?

This is known as a Van der Waals force, and it's what makes geckos stick to walls.

Or because it's only van der Waals forces, is it ?

DR. FRANS DE WAAL: Veneer theory basically says that, deep down, we humans, we are nasty and selfish.

And the best one is a guy called Franz de Waal who wrote a book called "The Age of Empathy."

At Antwerp Zoo there's a chap called Frans de Waal in the 1970s who stood day after day watching chimpanzee communities.

The layers only stick because of Van der Waals forces.

And we've enclosed them in their van der Waals surfaces.

They all interacts with one another through electrostatics and van der Waals forces and long-range forces-- which basically, it

And one of the people they selected was a woman named Latifah Al-Waalan.

Now, I wanted to quickly share with you a scientific study that Frans de Waal, who you heard from, carried on.

Our hands aren't like that, but ants and cockroaches don't rely on Van der Waals forces, and they can still climb up walls.

- As you stretch the polymers, they start to align and stick together through weak intermolecular forces called Van der Waal's forces.

But titanium disulfide has a second key advantage, this material is made of stacked layers held together by weak Van der Waals forces.

This I can almost certainly say, we wouldn't be sticking at that scale, and that's because the Van der Waals type interactions are still small.

We don't have the attachment disks or whatever that would be, or like the special claws or the Van der Waals forces.

So sometimes we show sort of a space filling representation, where the atoms are enclosed in their van der Waals radii, if you

And you end up with these waves of silk that are so fine that you get van der Waals forces between the silk and the molecules

And what you see here, the adhesive on it, is-- not adhesive, its van der Waals force-- it's the cribellate silk, not the sticky glue