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IN STUDYING A REACTION, ONE IS CONCERNED not only with its stoichiometry and its rate law but also with the steps involved. The main steps, the principal contributing elementary reactions, constitute the chemical mechanism for the process.
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Duffey, G.H. (2000). Explanatory Mechanisms. In: Modern Physical Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4297-1_16
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