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Description	Motion of gas molecules
Source	English Wikipedia
Date	August 25th 2006
Author	A.Greg, User:Greg L
Permission	see below
Other versions	Single frame (for thumbnail purposes)

The translational motion of fundamental particles of nature such as atoms and molecules gives a substance its temperature.  Here, the size of helium atoms relative to their spacing is shown to scale under 136 atmospheres of pressure. These room-temperature atoms have a certain, average speed (slowed down here two trillion fold). At any given instant however, a particular helium atom may be moving much faster than average while another may be nearly motionless. Five atoms are colored red to facilitate following their motions.

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