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(c) Why should gases be insulators at ordinary pressures and start conducting at very low pressures?

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At low pressures, ions have a chance to reach their respective electrodes and constitute a current. At ordinary pressures, ions have no chance to do so because of collisions with gas molecules and recombination.
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