kinetics, a reaction rate constant or reaction rate coefficient ( k {\displaystyle k} ) is a proportionality constant which quantifies the rate and direction...
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expression for the reaction rate of a given reaction in terms of concentrations of chemical species and constant parameters (normally rate coefficients and...
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The reaction rate or rate of reaction is the speed at which a chemical reaction takes place, defined as proportional to the increase in the concentration...
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Hammett equation (section Substituent constants)
describes a linear free-energy relationship relating reaction rates and equilibrium constants for many reactions involving benzoic acid derivatives with meta-...
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Transition state theory (redirect from Absolute reaction rate theory)
qualitatively how chemical reactions take place. TST has been less successful in its original goal of calculating absolute reaction rate constants because the calculation...
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Half-life (redirect from Reaction half life)
for a zero order reaction depends on the initial concentration and the rate constant. In first order reactions, the rate of reaction will be proportional...
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Chemical kinetics (redirect from Reaction kinetics)
of reaction rates from which rate laws and rate constants are derived. Relatively simple rate laws exist for zero order reactions (for which reaction rates...
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of a reaction rate constant or equilibrium constant for one series of chemical reactions with the logarithm of the rate or equilibrium constant for a...
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overall rate of a reaction is often approximately determined by the slowest step, known as the rate-determining step (RDS or RD-step or r/d step) or rate-limiting...
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energy. The Arrhenius equation gives the dependence of the rate constant of a chemical reaction on the absolute temperature as k = A e − E a R T , {\displaystyle...
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The equilibrium constant of a chemical reaction is the value of its reaction quotient at chemical equilibrium, a state approached by a dynamic chemical...
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pseudo first order reaction rate constant (in water at 25 °C), k, of a reaction, normalized to the reaction rate, k0, of a standard reaction with water as...
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chemical kinetics, an Arrhenius plot displays the logarithm of a reaction rate constant, ( ln ( k ) {\displaystyle \ln(k)} , ordinate axis) plotted against...
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Damköhler numbers (category Chemical reaction engineering)
chemical engineering to relate the chemical reaction timescale (reaction rate) to the transport phenomena rate occurring in a system. It is named after German...
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that are typically obtained from the temperature dependence of a reaction rate constant, when these data are analyzed using the Eyring equation of the transition...
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the dissociation constant can also be called an ionization constant. For a general reaction: A x B y ↽ − − ⇀ x A + y B {\displaystyle {\ce {A_{\mathit...
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Self-ionization of water (redirect from Autoionization constant for water)
inverse recombination reaction H3O+ + OH− → 2 H2O is among the fastest chemical reactions known, with a reaction rate constant of 1.3×1011 M−1 s−1 at...
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Molecularity (redirect from Trimolecular reaction)
time, and k r {\displaystyle k_{r}} is the reaction rate constant. As can be deduced from the rate law equation, the number of A molecules that decay...
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Eyring equation (category Reaction mechanisms)
}}{h}}+{\frac {\Delta S^{\ddagger }}{R}}} where: k {\displaystyle k} = reaction rate constant T {\displaystyle T} = absolute temperature Δ H ‡ {\displaystyle...
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The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR or sed rate) is the rate at which red blood cells in anticoagulated whole blood descend in a standardized tube...
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spontaneous reaction if the system is closed and initial and final temperatures are the same. For processes that take place in a closed system at constant pressure...
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Catagenesis (geology) (section Theoretical reaction)
{dX}{dt}}=-\kappa X} where X is the reactant (kerogen) and κ is the reaction rate constant which introduces the temperature-dependence via the Arrhenius equation...
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Stellar nucleosynthesis (section Reaction rate)
{\displaystyle r=n_{A}\,n_{B}\,k} where k is the reaction rate constant of each single elementary binary reaction composing the nuclear fusion process: k = ⟨...
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Enzyme kinetics (redirect from Enzyme reaction rate)
Enzyme kinetics is the study of the rates of enzyme-catalysed chemical reactions. In enzyme kinetics, the reaction rate is measured and the effects of varying...
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(linear) reactions the product of the reaction rate constants in the clockwise direction is equal to the product of the reaction rate constants in the counterclockwise...
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Activation energy (redirect from Reaction threshold)
Arrhenius model of reaction rates, activation energy is the minimum amount of energy that must be available to reactants for a chemical reaction to occur. The...
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chemistry, the law of mass action is the proposition that the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the product of the activities or...
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involved in the rate-determining step. What distinguishes SN2 from the other major type of nucleophilic substitution, the SN1 reaction, is that the displacement...
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nth-order reaction (r = kCAn), where k is the reaction rate constant, CA is the concentration of species A, and n is the order of the reaction isothermal...
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stage is characterized by the forward reaction rate constant k2 = 0.072 sec-1. The dissociation constant is determined as the ratio k-1/k1 = 13.76...
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