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Oxygen on a macro and molecular level

diagram demonstrating Oxygen on a macro and molecular level

The gaseous state is truly chaotic on the molecular level, but at the macroscopic level, external inspection of a sample of oxygen gas at STP reveals a colourless gas that seems to be sitting still in its containing vessel.

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