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The document discusses the behavior of gaseous molecules, highlighting how they spread quickly in a room and experience numerous collisions. It references Graham's law of effusion, which states that the rate of gas diffusion is inversely proportional to the square root of its molecular weight. Additionally, it explains the process of diffusion, where gas molecules disperse from areas of high concentration to low concentration until equilibrium is reached.

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The document discusses the behavior of gaseous molecules, highlighting how they spread quickly in a room and experience numerous collisions. It references Graham's law of effusion, which states that the rate of gas diffusion is inversely proportional to the square root of its molecular weight. Additionally, it explains the process of diffusion, where gas molecules disperse from areas of high concentration to low concentration until equilibrium is reached.

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Vidhi: -

If you have ever been in a room when a piping hot pizza was delivered,
you have been made aware of the fact that gaseous molecules can
quickly spread throughout a room, as evidenced by the pleasant aroma
that soon reaches your nose. Although gaseous molecules travel at
tremendous speeds (hundreds of meters per second), they collide with
other gaseous molecules and travel in many different directions before
reaching the desired target. At room temperature, a gaseous molecule
will experience billions of collisions per second.

Aditi: - Graham's law of effusion also called Graham's law of diffusion was
formulated by Scottish physical chemist Thomas Graham in 1848. Graham's law states
that the rate of diffusion or of effusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square
root of its molecular weight. Thus, if the molecular weight of one gas is four times that
of another, it would diffuse through a porous plug or escape through a small pinhole in a
vessel at half the rate of the other (Heavier the gas, slower it diffuses)

Liam: - In general, we know that when a sample of gas is introduced to one


part of a closed container, its molecules very quickly disperse throughout the
container; this process by which molecules disperse in space in response to
differences in concentration is called diffusion. The gaseous atoms or
molecules are, of course, unaware of any concentration gradient, they simply
move randomly—regions of higher concentration have more particles than
regions of lower concentrations, and so a net movement of species from high
to low concentration areas takes place. In a closed environment, diffusion
will ultimately result in equal concentrations of gas throughout,

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