A bottle of perfume is opened in the corner of a large hall of volume 1000 m3. After some time, the whole hall smells of the perfume.
Which of the following property of gases is responsible for this observation?
A
Thermal conductivity
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B
Viscosity
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C
Diffusion
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D
Compressibility
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Solution
The correct option is B Diffusion
A bottle of perfume is opened in a room, the smell of its vapor spreads in the entire room due to diffusion.
Even if one opens a “bottle of perfume” in a “room”, we can “smell” it from a considerable distance.
This is because the perfume gas moves from its high concentration areas to its low concentration area when the perfume bottle is opened and this process is called “diffusion”. This is the reason for getting the perfume smell from places far away.
Diffusion occurs in liquids and gases as their particles move from “place to place” randomly.