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Brownian motion or pedesis is the random motion of particles suspended in a fluid resulting from their collision with the fast-moving atoms or molecules in the gas or liquid. This transport phenomenon is named after the botanist Robert Brown...
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The term “classical Brownian motion” describes the random movement of microscopic particles suspended in a liquid or gas. Brown was investigating the fertilization process in Clarkia pulchella, then a newly discovered species of flowering plant, when he noticed a “rapid oscillatory motion” of the microscopic particles within the pollen grains suspended in water under the microscope. Other researchers had noticed this phenomenon earlier, but Brown was the first to study it. Initially he believed that such motion was a vital activity peculiar to the male sex cells of plants, but he then checked to see if the pollen of plants dead for over a century showed the same movement. Brown called this a “very unexpected fact of seeming vitality being retained by these ‘molecules’ so long after the death of the plant.” Further study revealed that the same motion could be observed not only with particles of other organic substances but even with chips of glass or granite and particles of smoke. Finally, in inarguable support of the nonliving nature of the phenomenon, he demonstrated it in fluid-filled vesicles in rock from the Great Sphinx.
In tribute of Robert Brown (botanist) the name is given to this movement
In tribute of Robert Brown (botanist) the name is given to this movement
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