• Question: what is the gap between particles in the air called.

    Asked by anon-177559 to Andrew, Becky, Daniel, Helen, Nicola, Urslaan on 11 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Urslaan Chohan

      Urslaan Chohan answered on 11 Jun 2018:

      You can call it “space”. There really is no particular name for it though.

    • Photo: Daniel Marsh

      Daniel Marsh answered on 11 Jun 2018:

      The gap between particles of any gas is a vacuum, however it doesn’t suck in the way that you think a vacuum cleaner does rather it is just a space that happens to be empty.

    • Photo: Andrew Singer

      Andrew Singer answered on 14 Jun 2018:

      I believe the word that might describe this space is: nothing. I think the gap between atoms is a vacuum, i.e., the absence of everything.

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