Simple molecular structures have intermolceualr forces.
what about Giant covalent sturtucres. Do they have
intermolecular forces? they have lots of strong covalent bonds
which need very high eenrgy to be broken down.
Except graphite which has VDW forces, in diamond if there are
two units of diamond won't they have VDW forces bewteen them?
Yes, there are always van der Waals forces between molecules in
close proximity, even giant ones. But such forces would exist only
if you place 2 diamonds next to each other, touching. And even
then, the van der Waals forces would be ridiculously weak (ie. just
blowing onto 2 little diamonds can easily separate them), while the
tetrahedral covalent lattice within each diamond (ie. that's one
giant molecule for you, so gigantic that the diamond molecule is
visible to your naked eye (otherwise your girlfriend would
certainly dump you) and (if you're really rich) the diamond
molecule might even be larger than your belly button) is so
ridiculously strong, it's basically the hardest natural material
known to man.