Imagine you have a special set of marbles. There are black marbles and white mar

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Imagine you have a special set of marbles. There are black marbles and white marbles. These have the property that when two marbles collide, a black marble will stick to a white marble, but two blacks or two whites will not stick upon collision. If you throw black and white marbles into a box at random and then shake the box a bit, and look inside, you will naturally find many clusters of black and white marbles but you won?t see clusters of all white, or all black marbles. Are the marbles in this example behaving more or less like atoms? 1. There is no similarity at all between this marble example and the behavior of atoms. 2. This has never been tried so we don?t actually know what might happen. 3. The marbles are behaving much like atoms do, with rules for combination. 4. This would never happen because it involves an increase in entropy and that can?t happen.

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Here motion of marbles are behaving much like that of atoms with the rules of combination

It is because all the marbles are moving randomly known as Brownian Motion

So due to this randomness of motion not all the black and white ball will form cluster but few of them joined

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