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hyun0106
hyun0106
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High School - 12th Grade

What is the kinetic theory of gases and how can it explain some of the gas experiments?

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Posted by hyun0106 on Monday April 27, 2009 at 7:02 PM and tagged with chemistry, science.

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  1. krishna-agrawala
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    Kinetic theory of gases, describes the nature of all gases in terms of random movement of the molecules that constitute the gas, and explains how such movement of molecules at high speed determines temperature, pressure and other properties of gases.

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    Posted by krishna-agrawala on Tuesday July 7, 2009 at 9:13 AM