BRAINCAKEMeasuring Reaction Rates
Knowing how fast a reaction proceeds is essential in designing manufacturing plants or considering the economics of industrial processes.
It also gives evidence about the mechanism of a chemical reaction.
The initial rate of a chemical reaction can be obtained from the slope of a tangent of a concentration-time graph drawn at t=0 seconds.
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- colorimetry
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