Timeline for How quickly do farts spread?
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| Oct 26, 2016 at 0:49 | comment | added | Lawrence B. Crowell | youtube.com/watch?v=ADiI_-3TA3I | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 22:43 | vote | accept | drunkBrain | ||
| Oct 25, 2016 at 20:20 | history | edited | Lawrence B. Crowell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2016 at 14:39 | history | edited | Lawrence B. Crowell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2016 at 13:05 | comment | added | drunkBrain | Assuming ideal gas, for example, how would I calculate how fast, say, 1 kilogram of gas diffuses at STP? | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 11:48 | comment | added | Lawrence B. Crowell | To do an explicit calculation one might have to do a Boltzmann calculation. In general the lighter the molecule the faster it will diffuse. Methane has a gram molecular weight of 16. This makes it bouyant and readily diffusable. This is though not the smell of flatulence. These are due to putrecine and related alkanamine molecules that are a carbon chain with amine $NH_2$ ends. These are heavier and tend to hug the ground. | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 11:28 | history | edited | user36790 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2016 at 10:58 | comment | added | drunkBrain | So solving for v, then integrating with respect to time would give me the particle location? Then how would I apply this to the mass of the entire gas body? | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 10:56 | history | answered | Lawrence B. Crowell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |