At temperature T, the average kinetic energy of any particle is . The de Broglie wavelength follows the order :
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JEE Main 2015 · 11 Apr · Shift 1, Chemistry question 33
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Official answer: C
A visible photon has -700 nm. A thermal particle has : about 6 nm for an electron at 300 K and about 0.15 nm for a neutron. So visible photon > thermal electron > thermal neutron.
Topics:de Broglie and Heisenberg