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- Information is available on:
-
- Gases
-
- Some Useful Data
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- Note that if any read me files are
- supplied as part of this application,
- they may have more recent information
- than is contained in this file.
-
- UnitConv is © Chris Johnson, 1992
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- This application provides interactive
- help when the !Help application is
- active.
-
- There are also other help displays with
- appropriate information available from
- all other menus associated with this
- application.
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- Gases
- You may enter values for the
- temperature of the gas, the pressure of
- the gas, the size of the molecule, and
- the relative molar mass into the
- appropriate icons and then click on
- CALCULATE. Pressing <RETURN> will be the
- same as clicking CALCULATE. Use <TAB> or
- the up/down arrow keys to move to each
- writable icon in turn.
-
- If you have entered values for all four
- parameters, then the following values
- will be calculated.
-
- Mean free path of the molecules.
-
- RMS, average and most probable
- velocities.
-
- Collision frequency and the total
- number of collisions in a cubic metre.
-
- The program tries to be intelligent
- about what to calculate. For example,
- the velocities require only the
- temperature and the molar mass, whereas
- the mean free path calculation requires
- temperature, pressure and size of
- molecule. The program calculates what it
- can, and leaves the data fields blank if
- there is insufficient input data for
- that calculation. If a temperature is
- not entered, then an error message is
- generated.
-
- Clicking MENU in this window allows you
- to change the default units used for
- pressure (atmosphere, N/m² and torr) and
- size (pm, nm and m), and to enter the
- size either as the diameter or cross
- sectional area. If you choose to enter
- the size as a diameter, the program
- assumes the molecule is spherical.
-
- Remember - we are dealing with the
- COLLISION cross-section. This is
- effectively PI x diameter², since the
- distance between centres of colliding
- molecules is 2 x radius.
-
- Temperature is always entered as kelvin.
-
- The window remains on-screen until
- explicitly closed.
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- Some Useful Data
- Here are some data you may find useful.
-
- Collision cross-sections/nm²
-
- He 0.21
- Ne 0.24
- Ar 0.36
-
- H2 0.27
- N2 0.43
- O2 0.40
- Cl2 0.93
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- CO2 0.52
- SO2 0.58
- CH4 0.46
- C2H4 0.64
- C6H6 0.88
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- Acknowledgement
- This program was compiled using the ABC
- BASIC compiler (Oak Solutions).
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