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- Information is available on:
-
- Gases
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Collision cross-sections/(nm)²
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- He 0.21
- Ne 0.24
- Ar 0.36
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- 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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