Question

Breakdown in gas is introduced by collision of the molecules but in liquied the collision of the molecules of the electrons is not possible due to insufficient kinetic energy of the electrons

Answer 1

Nitrogen and oxygen molecules in a single liter of air at room temperature and 1 atm of pressure collide about 1030 times per second. If every collision produced two molecules of NO, the atmosphere would have been converted to NO and then NO2 a long time ago. Instead, in most collisions, the molecules simply bounce off one another without reacting, much as marbles bounce off each other when they collide. The collision model also explains why such chemical reactions occur more rapidly at higher temperatures. For example, the reaction rates of many reactions that occur at room temperature approximately double with a temperature increase of only 10°C. In this section, we will use the collision model to analyze this relationship between temperature and reaction rates

Answer 2

Gases are composed of a large number of particles that behave like hard, spherical objects in a state of constant, random motion.

These particles move in a straight line until they collide with another particle or the walls of the container.

These particles are much smaller than the distance between particles. Most of the volume of a gas is therefore empty space.

There is no force of attraction between gas particles or between the particles and the walls of the container.

Collisions between gas particles or collisions with the walls of the container are perfectly elastic. None of the energy of a gas particle is lost when it collides with another particle or with the walls of the container.

The average kinetic energy of a collection of gas particles depends on the temperature of the gas and nothing else.