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What is the difference between covalent radius and van der Waal's radius?

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Covalent radius- It is one-half of the distance between nuclei of two bonded atoms of the same element.
van der waal’s radius- It is one –half the distance between the nuclei of two adjacent atoms belonging to two neighbouring molecules of in solid state.

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