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Brownian motion is the "jiggling" of macroscopic particles due to their bombardment by surrounding molecules as they move around. The direction of the force of atomic bombardment is constantly changing, and at different times the particle is hit more on one side than another, leading to the seemingly random nature of the motion. The size of the particles that can be thus affected is so small that it requires a microscope to observe the effect.

As the temperature of a liquid or gas increases, the average velocity of the molecules increases. Faster motion means increased momentum for the molecules impacting the macroscopic particles, thus as temperature increases, so does Brownian motion.

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