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OS-AP-12-62 · OpenStax College Physics for AP Courses 2e

Molecular Transport Phenomena: Diffusion, Osmosis, and Related Processes (Problem 62)

You can smell perfume very shortly after opening the bottle. To show that it is not reaching your nose by diffusion, calculate the average distance a perfume molecule moves in one second in air, given its diffusion constant to be .