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Carbon dioxide is heavier than oxygen and nitrogen but it does not form the lower layer of the atmosophere. Exoplain.

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The diffusion of the gases is quite independent of the gravitational pull by the earth. The molecules of carbon dioxide remain distributed throughout the amosphere. Therefore, carbon dioxides does not form the lower layer of the atmosphere.
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