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Question
A bottle of perfume was opened in a room. The smell of its vapours spread in the entire room. Name the property of gases which is responsible for this behaviour of perfume vapours.
Solution
When a bottle of perfume in opened, fragrance of perfume spreads in the whole room. This behaviour is due to larger spaces in between the tiny particles of gas and their random movements which leads to the process of diffusion.
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