Why doesn't a DISPERSION force repell as strongly as it attracts

Subject: Why doesn't a DISPERSION force repell as strongly as it attracts

Date: Thu Dec 2 00:46:27 1999
Posted by Andrew
Grade level: 10-12 School: No school entered.
City: wagga State/Province: NSW Country: Australia
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 944117187.Ch

Message:


If they are due to the random unsymetrical distribution of electrons 
around a molecule and thus creating a temporary dipole, why don't you get 
a (random) distribution that causes molecules to repell.  Which would then 
cancel the intermolecular attraction?

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