I'm a high school student and I've been recently learning about feynmann diagrams and I've always wondered what happens in the intermediate stage in a feynmann diagram. i.e the step in between when a neutron turns into a proton and the emergance of a boson. I've tried asking my physics teacher...
But if the nuclear radius increase wouldn't this counteract the van der wal's forces because with bigger radius there would be less chance of all the electrons causing an imbalance as they would be more likely to "spread out".
I was given the explanation that as you go down a group in the periodic table, the boiling points of the elements increase as the radius of the atom increase. There are more electrons and therefore the greater distance they can move in which the temporary dipoles can cover and so the Van Der...