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Seeing that the Lennard Jones potential involves the Pauli repulsion term minus an inverse 6th power dependency as a summation of potentials, doesn't the relative value of the Pauli repulsion to the dipole dipole attraction matter greatly? How is it that they can just choose "any high power or...

I was reading about the Lennard-Jones potential, and I believe I understand the derivation of the 6th power dependency of dipole dipole interactions (Van der Waal forces) well. The most I have been able to find about the 12th power dependency of Pauli repulsion is that is has no theoretical...