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London dispersion forces, also known as dispersion forces or van der Waals forces, are a type of weak intermolecular force that arise from temporary fluctuations in the electron distribution within molecules or atoms. These fluctuations lead to the creation of temporary dipoles, which can induce dipoles in neighboring molecules, resulting in an attractive force between them.

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