Molecules average distance between

In water at room temperature some molecules have more than four nearest neighbors, but at any moment the majority have four neighbors, as in ice. If the molecules tend to have a tetrahedral arrangement like that of ice, the average distance between next-nearest neighbors would be... 

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At room temperature, the average speed of a nitrogen molecule is found to be about one-quarter mile per second. In one second, however, the nitrogen molecule has collided with many other molecules, so its motion follows a zig-zag path. Although the average distance between molecules is small, the molecule passes by many other molecules without hitting them, so the distance it travels between collisions is about fifteen times the average distance between the molecules (at room pressure and temperature). 

FIG. 33 X-Ray Diffraction Patterns of Ammonium Dodecane 1-Sulfonate. 2-D (a) and 3-D plots (b) of oriented samples. Both pictures show the presence of a nonordered smectic phase, since the diffuse, weak, wide-angle diffraction indicates only an average distance between the molecules and the sharp, intense small angle reflections a very well defined layer distance. The reflections are perpendicular to each other, so the structure should correspond to an orthogonal smectic A type. The pictures were obtained using an x-1000 area detector from Siemens. 

Root-mean-square end-to-end distance, which effectively takes account of the average distance between the first and the last segment in the macromolecule, and is always less that the so-called contour length of the polymer. This latter is the actual distance from the beginning to the end of the macromolecule travelling along the covalent bonds of the molecule s backbone. Radius of gyration, which is the root-mean-square distance of the ele-... 

When a sound wave, propagated by a series of compression and rarefaction cycles, passes through a liquid medium it causes the molecules to oscillate aroimd their mean position. During the compression cycle the average distance between molecules is reduced and, conversely, it is... 

As a increases, the average distance between ionized groups decreases so that these neighbouring groups begin to have an effect. When a exceeds 0-3, individual water spheres begin to overlap and eventually coalesce into a cylindrical form. With further increases in a, a second outer cylindrical sheath of water appears in which water molecules are oriented by the cooperative effect of two or more carboxyl groups. 

Importantly, in most applications the measured (change in) FRET efficiency cannot be translated directly into an average distance between donor and acceptor fluorophore because the fraction of donor molecules involved in FRET is unknown (i.e., all molecules display 25% FRET or 50% of the molecules display 50% FRET), and the orientation factor (k2) is unknown (see also Chapter 7). 

This parameter is equal to one when the perfect gas law applies. When the pressure is increased to 10 atm, the predicted perfect gas volume is reduced to 2.24 L and the average distance between the molecules shrinks to 15.5 A when the pressure is increased to 100 atm, the predicted volume is reduced to 0.224 L and the average distance shrinks further to 7.2 A when the pressure is further increased to 1000 atm, the volume predicted by the perfect gas law is 0.0224 L and the average distance shrinks further to 3.3 A. By then, the intermolecular distance is roughly equal to the molecular diameters. As the molecules come together, the attractive forces are first felt, which manifests itself by a drop from the ideal gas volume, which is represented by Z < 1. With further compression, the molecules begin to touch, and the repulsive forces become dominant, which manifests itself as a resistance to further volume reduction and Z > 1. 

For helium at room temperature and 1 atm pressure, the average distance between collisions (the mean free path) is only about 2 X 10-7 m, or 1000 atomic diameters, and there are approximately 1010 collisions per second. For a larger O2 molecule, the mean free path is about 6 X 10-8 m. 

With TCNQ in a solution of dimethylformamide (DMFA) the dimer 102 forms the 1 1 charge-transfer complex 103 (83IZV690). The crystal structure of 103 is represented by stacked alternate layers of the molecules of TCNQ and 102, the latter adopting a nonplanar conformation. The average distance between the layers is 3.37 A. The electrical conductivity measured for a monocrystal of the charge-transfer complex of 102-TCNQ is 10-7 ohm 1cm l. 

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