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Summary A discussion is given of the Van der Waals forces between the 3d and 4d shells of transition metals, and it is shown that a consideration of their nature may account for the low number of conduction electrons (0·6) in these metals and their alloys.
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N.P. Mott (1953) studied this question.
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