Chemical Kinetics: Reaction Rate As Reactivity
The rate of any given reaction,
Reactants → Products
is governed by the rate law:
where the rate is the change in the molar concentration in one second in the rate-determining step of the reaction (the slowest step), is the product of the molar concentration of all the reactants raised to the correct order, known as the reaction order, and k is the reaction constant, which is constant for one given set of circumstances (generally temperature and pressure) and independent of concentration. The greater the reactivity of a compound the higher the value of k and the higher the rate. For instance, if,
A+B → C+D
Then:
where n is the reaction order of A, m is the reaction order of B, n+m is the reaction order of the full reaction, and k is the reaction constant.
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