Why doesn’t the nitrogen in the air float above the oxygen in the atmosphere.
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Gas is less dense than you think. If you could condense all the gas in your bedroom into a liquid, it would fit into a coffee mug. The space between the particles is enormous. Most of the particles are just bouncing off each other due to heat, barely influenced individually by gravity. In effect, buoyancy is negligent. The gas mixes into a fairly homogenous mixture.
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