Question #6856c

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anor277
Jul 28, 2016

Because most of the space occupied by a gas, massive or not, is EMPTY.

Explanation:

The statement above was one of the assumptions of kinetic molecular theory. And for real gases, the assumption seems to be reasonable. Even a gas as massive and heavy as #UF_6# approximates the behaviour of kinetic molecular theory.

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