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Moelcules in air in the atmosphere are attracted by gravitational force of the earth. Explain why all of them do not fall into the earth just like an apple falling from a tree.

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Air molecules in the atmosphere are attracted vertically downwards by gravitational force of the earth just like an apple falling from a tree. Air molecules move randomly due to their thermal velocity and hence the resultant motion of air molecules is not exactly in the vertical downward direction.
But in case of apple, only vertical motion dominates because of being heavier than air molecules. But due to gravity, the density of atmosphere increases near to the earth's surface
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