Suppose the following graph shows the potential energy function for a certain hypothetical interaction.

This interaction is
A. attractive for all r.
B. repulsive for all r.
C. attractive for small r, but repulsive for large r.
D. repulsive for small r, but attractive for large r.
E. impossible to characterize without more information.


A. attractive for all r.

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