How The smell of lighted incense stick spreads several meters away?

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This happens because when we light up the incense stick the heat will be produced. As heat produces energy that energy will make the solid state as gaseous state and after that due to the process of diffusion we get smell even we are several meters away.

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(b) A girl is cooking some food in the kitchen, The smell of food being cooked soon reaches her brother's room, Explain how the smell could have reached her brother's room.

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When an incense stick is lighted in the corner of a room, its fragrance spreads quickly in the entire room.

why does the smell of the lighted incense stick reaches several metres away?

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