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Chemical Kinetics

Chapter Highlights
Rate of reaction, Factors affecting rate of reaction, Collision theory and activation energy, Molecularity, Elementary and complex reactions, Order of reactions, Photochemical reactions, Photosensitizer and various levels of multiple-choice questions.
KINETICS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS
  • Chemical kinetics, or simply kinetics, is the study of rate of reactions and factors affecting it, like temperature, pressure, catalyst, radiations.
  • On the basis of rate of reaction, reactions can be of slow, moderate and very fast types.
  • Very fast reactions take 10–14 to 10–16seconds for their completion, for example, ionic reactions, such as one shown below

    NaCl + AgNO3 AgCl + NaNO3

  • Fast reactions are not studied under kinetics. ...

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