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Subject to assumptions about the physical properties of the molecules, the L-J potential may be used to calculate an approximation for their separation. Other more recent methods, such as the Stockmayer equation and the so-called multi equation, describe the interaction of molecules more accurately.
The L-J potential is of the form
where is the well depth and is the hard sphere radius.
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