Question

Give Reasons for the following observations: The smell of hot sizzling food reaches you several metres away, but to get the smell from cold food you have to go close.​

Answer 1

Answer:

We smell something when particles of that certain thing enter our nose.

The particles of hot food have more energy than the particles of cold food, because of which more particles separate from the hot food and reach our nose far way, while very less number particles of the cold food separate from it and because of the low energy they can't reach our nose so far.

Answer 2

Answer:

The smell of hot sizzling food reaches to you several meters away but to take smell from cold food you have to go close because particles of hot sizzling food possess large kinetic energy and diffuse in air rapidly and reach several meters away whereas particles of cold food possess less kinetic energy and are not able ...

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