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Title: Chemical Kinetics
Post by: Cavat on January 28, 2008, 01:33:26 PM

I tried doing a search, but I think my search was to specific and I didn't find anything...


Anyways, kind of simple question I think, and I think I have an idea of the answer, but not really sure.

So, I was curious if someone could help me with the relationship between the rate of reaction and time?

I know reaction rate = dConcentration / dTime, so would that mean its inversely related? or as time goes on reaction rate goes down?



Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: Chemical Kinetics
Post by: 0000000 on January 30, 2008, 07:31:54 AM

This is connected with integral calculations, it's not simple dividing. First read about mathematical functions and after that re-post your question to you

Title: Re: Chemical Kinetics
Post by: Kryolith on January 30, 2008, 02:36:28 PM

If you have the reaction rate and want to determine the concentration at a specific time you need to solve a differential equation. They can be very hard to solve but there are also easy ones. Here is an

Example for a first order reaction:

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