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Why should gases be insulators at ordanary pressures and start conducting at very low pressures ?

Answer» At ordanary pressure , only very positive ions and electrons are produced are produced by the ionisation of gas moleculews. They are not able to reach the respective electrodes and becaome insulators . At low pressure , density decreases and mean free path becomes large . So at high voltage , they acquire sufficent amount energy and they collide with molcules for further ionnisation . Due to this , the number of ions in a gas increases and it becomes a conductor .


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