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Maybe if you want your criticism addressed you should prune unnecessary attacks from it.

Interesting, this is the kind of nuance I was wondering about. Could you check? I don't have access to any books that actually address this topic.

Thanks Kashishi! Laying out the collision possibilities like that really helped, and thanks for clarifying the theory too. I was just concerned that maybe the explanations I'd seen wouldn't apply to a mixture due to some factor I'm unaware of.

So this is a fairly simple conceptual question: can you estimate/compare the mean free paths for individual components of a mixture of gases? I'm primarily looking at the equation given here and the information accompanying it. Consider the case where we have several individual, separate...