Perfume released in one corner of a room soon fills it because:

  1. air pushes it in one direction
  2. molecules spread randomly into the most probable (disordered) state
  3. it is lighter than air
  4. it is attracted to walls
Answer

B) molecules spread randomly into the most probable (disordered) state

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