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What is the reason for Brownian motion?

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(i) According to kinetic theory, any particle suspended in a liquid or gas is continuously bombarded from all the direcitons so that the mean free path is almost negligible.
(ii) This leads to the motion of the particles in a random and zig-zag manner.
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