Explain how a gas in a vessel exerts pressure.

A gas in a vessel exerts pressure due to the constant motion and collisions of its molecules with the walls of the container.  Each molecule that collides with of vessel exerts a small force on the wall; and the cumulative effect of numerous collisions over a given area generates a continuous force on the wall of the vessel. This force per unit area constitutes pressure of a gas.

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