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Hi, I don't have a question to really be found in a text book or
anything but...natural gas...using a bunson burner or stove or
what-not..the gas is emitted into the air..when the gas goes to
settle, does its chemicals or elements settle on a surface or
evaporate in the air? If a human body were near, would they
settle on skin possibly irritating it? Thanks
For a fixed amopunt, it will just disperse through the air until it would be totally mixed and equally present in all air.
If you were continually releaseing, it would displace much of the air in the area present. If you shut it off, it again disperses until completely mixed.
It will no more "settle" than O2, N2, or CO2. Because natural gas is methane, it is lighter than air in general so that it will tend to initially rise when released.
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