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Offline Cavat

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Chemical Kinetics
« 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.

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Re: Chemical Kinetics
« Reply #1 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
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Re: Chemical Kinetics
« Reply #2 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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