How do London Forces/Van der Waal's forces arise?

In the outer shells of atoms, electrons move around uncontrollably and spontaneously, these leads to there being an uneven distribution of electrons in this region. This uneven distribution induces a dipole in this atom, which then in turn induces dipoles in neighboring atoms.

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