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--- Quote from: Demotivator on January 19, 2005, 09:28:28 AM ---2. I look at the coefficients of the balanced mechanism equations.

3. This is a stepwise mechanism. In going to X, the intermediate W already has a potential energy of 30 and needs only 30 more (not 60) to get to X for that step.

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Oh i see!How about Q1, is there a restriction on the number of elementary steps? Or can you make as many elementary steps as you like?

Demotivator:
There is no restriction on the number of steps.
All mechanistic schemes are just hypothetical until experimental evidence decides which ones are plausible and which are not.

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