German river

Usage examples of waal.

He chuckled again and spent the next few minutes drawing a diagram of the gecko setae and explaining the van der Waals attraction.

Waal and Maas, known as the Bommel Waat, and a fresh attempt at invasion by the Spaniards was repulsed with heavy loss, Sir Francis Vere and the English troops taking a leading part in the operations.

They were to seize crossings over the great Maas and Waal rivers, in particular the huge multispan bridge at Nijmegen, which, with its approaches, was almost a half-mile long.

Then Brigadier Zuitz showed us into the office of Inspector Van Der Waal, a great huge woman with old-fashioned contact lenses making her eyes bulge out with sympathy.

The active molecules used weak interactions—hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces and hydrophobic recognition—to assemble themselves into a three-dimensional structure, supramolecular arrays thousands of molecules long.

On the mediatron, the subassembly drifted away from the main group under its own momentum, then slowed, stopped, and began to fall back toward it, drawn in by weak van den Waals forces.