Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1957
Abstract
The preceding note1 (Paper I) developed the theory of the specificity of some intermolecular forces: the forces due to fluctuations of electric charge distribution in and over the interacting molecules. It was found that for a mixture of molecules in a liquid medium these forces cause a rearrangement of the molecules, so that molecules which have the same distribution of oscillator polarizabilities and oscillator orientations over the frequency spectrum tend to associate. This means that like molecules tend to become nearest neighbors. For that reason it was said that there is specific attraction between identical molecules.
Comments
Published in Proceeding of the National Association of Science USA 1957 43 (4) 341-346. Copyright 1957 National Association of Science USA. Used by permission.