Sentence examples for attractive force from inspiring English sources

Because opposite electric charges attract each other, there is an attractive force between electrons and protons.

The attractive force, also called the van der Waals force, includes attractions between atoms, molecules and surfaces.

Casimir suggested that this energy might produce a tiny attractive force between two parallel metallic discs.

Because it opposes the attractive force of gravity, dark energy tends to inhibit cluster formation.

Under the rules of quantum mechanics, a vacuum generates an attractive force between two metallic surfaces.

There are many types of intermolecular forces; the repulsive force and four varieties of attractive force are discussed here.

An additional attractive force results from the interaction of a permanent dipole with a neighbouring induced dipole.

Molecules with a dipole moment, such as water, have a strong attractive force owing to the interactions between the dipoles.

The tendency of such permanent dipoles to align with each other results in a net attractive force.

Water is polar (meaning it has an uneven distribution of charge), and hydrogen bonds— one type of weak attractive force— form between it and the adhesive instead.

In thermionic emission, the heat supplies some electrons with at least the minimal energy required to overcome the attractive force holding them in the structure of the metal.