Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Explain why, when a bottle of perfume is opened in a room, we can smell it even from a considerable distance.
Advertisements
Solution
When a bottle of perfume is opened in a room, the particles of perfume, start diffusing into the air surrounding the bottle. These particles of perfume keep moving towards a region of lower concentration by the virtue of their kinetic energy. Thus, when a bottle of perfume is opened, we can smell perfume even from a distance.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Which of the following diffuses fastest and which the slowest?
Solid, Liquid, Gas Give reasons for your answer.
Give one example of diffusion of gases in a liquid.
Why does a gas exert pressure?
When a gas jar containing colourless air is kept upside down over a gas jar full of brown-coloured bromine vapour, then after some time, the brown colour of bromine vapour spreads into the upper gas jar making both the gas jars appear brown in colour. Which of the following conclusion obtained from these observations is incorrect?
A substance has neither a fixed shape nor a fixed volume. State whether it is a solid, a liquid or a gas.
The substance X normally exists in a physical state which can flow easily but does not fill its vessel completely. It also turns anhydrous copper sulphate blue. When substance X is cooled excessively, it changes into a substance Y which has a fixed shape as well as a fixed volume. If, however, the substance X is heated strongly, it changes into a substance Z which has neither a fixed shape nor a fixed volume.
- Name the substances (i) X (ii) Y and (iii) Z.
- What is the process of conversion of X into Y known as ?
- At which temperature X gets converted into Y ?
- What is the process of conversion of X into Z known as ?
- At which temperature X gets converted into Z ?
Comment upon the following:-
filling a gas container
Comment upon the following:-
kinetic energy
Comment upon the following:-
density
Two gases A and B having molecular weights 60 and 45 respectively are enclosed in a vessel. The wt. of A is 0.50 g and that of B is 0.2 g. The total pressure of the mixture is 750 mm. The partial pressure of the gases B is ______ mm Hg.
