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Q: 11.37 (c) Why should gases be insulators at ordinary pressures and start conducting at very low pressures?

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At ordinary pressure due to a large number of collisions among themselves, the gases have no chance of reaching the electrodes while at very low pressure these collisions decrease exponentially and the gas molecules have a chance of reaching the respective electrodes and therefore are capable of conducting electricity.

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