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Why gases conduct electricity when pressure is reduced in discharge tube?
When the pressure is reduced in a discharge tube, the mean free path of the gas molecules increases. This allows the gas molecules to gain more energy and move freely, colliding with the charged particles in the discharge tube and facilitating the flow of electric charge. As a result, the gases become partially ionized, creating a conductive path for the electricity.
Can any ionized gas be a plasma?
Yes, any ionized gas is a plasma.
How do Bases conduct electrictricity?
A base, by definition, is going to add hydroxide ions to the solution, and will necessarily also add some other, positively charged ions to balance the negatively charged hydroxide ions, and all these ions have the capacity to conduct electricity.
What element does not conduct electricity and it is colorless gas at room temperature and pressure has a density of about 90 mgl?
This gas is hydrogen (H).
Can chlorine gas conducts eletricity?
Gases may be converted into a plasma and in this condition, they will conduct electricity.
Why are some liquids and some gas conductors of electricity?
molten metals are liquids that conduct electricity (mercury is molten at room temperature)electrolytes are liquids that conduct electricity (acids, salts, or bases either dissolved in water or molten)ionized gases conduct electricity (unless ionized gases are excellent insulators)
Why do you use starter for an incandescent lamp?
The starter will send a delayed high voltage electricity to the gas within the fluorescent bulb that cause the gas to be ionized and conduct electricity.
What properties do plasmas have that solids liquids and gases dont?
A plasma is an ionized gas ... thus its properties are those of a gas PLUS the fact that it can conduct electricity.
Why low pressure gas is used in thermionic valve?
If gas particles remain, they will get ionized and conduct electricity between elements resulting in a purple glow.
What has no definite shape volume and conducts electricity?
A substance that fits that description is a gas, such as hydrogen or oxygen. Gases have no definite shape or volume and can conduct electricity under certain conditions.
Can gas conduct heat?
Gas can conduct electricty, as demonstrated in halogen lights, it is just not a very strong conductor. Electricity is just the flow of electrons, and so if the gas molecules can be driven to producing/transfering electrons then they will conduct electricity. In gas filled light bulbs, electricity is conducted through the gas in the light bulb, exciting the gas molecules and creating light.
Are there any other household conductors?
o There are some organic compounds that can conduct electricity (organic conductors) salts, solubilized in water or any other solvent that can solubilize them conduct electricity. Molten salts conduct electricity ionized atoms or molecules can conduct electricity
Why methane can't conduct electricity?
Your question is not entirely correct in its assumption that gases don't conduct electricity; an ionized gas can conduct electricity very well, and in fact, that is necessary for the functioning of fluorescent light tubes (whether of the large or compact sizes) or neon lighting, which contain gases which become ionized when the light is on. But it is true that a non-ionized gas doesn't conduct electricity, and that is the kind of gas that we normally encounter; the air that we breathe is not ionized. If it were ionized, then all of our electrical equipment, wall outlets etc., would immediately short-circuit.Electricity acts on electrically charged objects of some kind, it cannot exert its force or interact with uncharged objects. So a normal air molecule is electrically neutral; it has no charge, therefore it has to way to interact with electricity. It does contain electrically charged component parts, which are the negatively charged electrons and the positively charged protons, but they are combined into electrically neutral atoms and molecules in which the positive and negative charges balance each other out. If a gas molecule is ionized by tearing away an electron, you are then left with a postively charged ionized molecule. Or you could add an electron and get a negatively charged ion. It works either way.
Is a flame an insulator or a conductor?
Flame is composed of very hot gas; as such it would not be used either as an insulator or as a conductor, but one could make an argument that it is a conductor, since it does conduct heat and since it does contain some ionized gas, it can conduct electricity.
Does oxygen conduct electricity?
oxygen does not conduct electricity because it is a gas that we breath in and a gas that we cannot see so it cannot conduct electricity.
Why are liquids and gasses not good conductors?
A liquid or a gas will conduct electricity when they have free ions in them. examples would be lead-acid batteries, and fluorescent lamps. Mercury vapour rectifiers are used to conduct quite large currents by virtue of the ionized mercury vapour.
Can hydrogen chloride gas conduct electricity?
No.
