In Vander Waals equation of state of the gas law, the constant 'b' is a measure of

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$\begin{array}{1 1}(A)\;\text{intermolecular repulsions} \\(B)\;\text{intermolecular collisions per unit volume} \\(C)\;\text{Volume occupied by the molecules}\\ (D)\; \text {intermolecular attraction } \end{array} $