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Project Question: Air has a set composition of elements that tends to stay stable in the same or close persentages. Should one element be withdrawn - (any, water, oxygen,) it has the tendancy to re-mix in the same persentage - What is this process called - what is the correct termenology for this process
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Composition of air

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What is the term used to express the action that takes place when air re-mixes to keep its set composition of water,oxygen, nitrogen , etc
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Re: Composition of air

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kwailoh88 - I don't think there is any predisposition of the constituent components of air (nitrogen, oxygen make up 98% of our atmosphere, carbon dioxide, water vapor and trace gasses make up the rest) to combine in any particular manner. If you remove some percentage of one of these gasses and allow this gas mixture to integrate with the general atmosphere, it will just gradually diffuse and create a mixture with a slightly different makeup than the original sample. Call it equilibrium, diffusion or anything else, there is no reactive or other principle at work here that is attempting to maintain a fixed percentage of the constituent gasses. I don't know if this helps answer your question. Perhaps I don't quite understand what you are trying to explain.

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