n an experiment to estimate the size of a molecule of olive oil, a drop of oil of volume 0.12cm3 was placed on a clean...

      

In an experiment to estimate the size of a molecule of olive oil, a drop of oil of volume 0.12cm3 was placed on a clean water surface. The oil spread on a patch of
diameter 6.0 x 106 mm2.

a) Calculate the size of the molecule.

b) State an assumption made in the above calculations.

  

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Martin
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b)
i) Thickness of the drop is equal to size of a molecule
ii) The oil drop spread uniformly into a circular path
marto answered the question on November 13, 2019 at 11:31


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