How do things know how to mix/spread evenly?

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I found it hard to word but like for example when shaking choccy milk how does the chocolate syrup know to spread evenly in the milk, and like other stuff to like when mixing alcohol with stuff. So like how does stuff already evenly or does it not and we dont know?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

It doesn’t. If u shake stuff Ure just basically randomizing all positions of the molecules, the more u do that the closer you come to an equilibrium (See Law of big numbers)

The word you’re looking for is diffusion, which happens to natural molecular movement (heat)

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