Abstract
The rate of a chemical reaction is defined as the rate of decrease of the concentration of reactants or the rate of increase of the concentration of products. To measure the rate, it is necessary to follow the change in the concentration of a reactant or product with time by a convenient method. Numerous methods are available and the choice of a suitable technique depends on the answer to some of the following questions:
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Is the half-life of the reaction sufficiently long to allow a conventional method to be used?
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Is the reaction carried out in the gas phase or in solution?
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Can the reactants or products be readily analysed?
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Is there some physical property of the system, for example electrical conductivity, optical rotation, absorbance, viscosity, which changes during the reaction?
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Is at least one of the products a gas?
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L. Batt. Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics, 1 (1969). 1.
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A. M. James. Practical Physical Chemistry, Churchill, London (1967).
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J. M. Wilson, R. J. Newcombe, A. R. Denaro and R. M. W. Rickett. Experiments in Physical Chemistry ( 2nd Edition ), Pergamon, Oxford (1968).
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Avery, H.E. (1974). Experimental Methods for the Determination of Reaction Rates. In: Basic Reaction Kinetics and Mechanisms. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15520-0_3
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