collision volume

physics

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molecular size determination

  • heated air expands
    In gas: Molecular sizes

    …molecules present in this so-called collision volume. If molecules are located by their centres and each molecule has a diameter d, then the collision volume will be a long cylinder of cross-sectional area πd2. The cylinder must be sufficiently long to include enough molecules so that good statistics on the…

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