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A student spilled a bottle of ammonia in one corner of the laboratory. Soon the laboratory was filled with pungent irritating smell. The students immediately opened the windows and doors and switched on the exhaust fans. After some time, students got relief. What did actually happen? Explain.

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Ammonia s strong gas which has a very pungent irritating smell.

i. When the student spilled a bottle of ammonia, the diffusion of gases take place. 

ii. The speed of the gases particles is very high and have very large space between them. 

iii. As a result, the gases diffuse very fast with other gases.

iv. Hence, smell of ammonia was filled with whole laboratory.

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