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I saw a multistep reaction kinetics question in some test prep material. I can't remember the details of the question, but I thought that it was particularly difficult and I can't find info on it easily (I've looked reasonably diligently).
A multistep chemical reaction was presented as an example.
The question asked to determine an equation for the reaction rate. It provided a few options, and I believe they were:
"the reaction rate is the negative slope of the change in reactant concentration over time"
"the reaction rate is the negative slope of the logarithm of the change in reactant concentration over the change in time"
"the reaction rate is the negative slope of the logarithm of the change in INTERMEDIATE concentration over the change in time"
etc...
Any thoughts? I've just never encoutered differential equations involving logarithms modelling multistep reaction kinetics in my pre-med studies.
A multistep chemical reaction was presented as an example.
The question asked to determine an equation for the reaction rate. It provided a few options, and I believe they were:
"the reaction rate is the negative slope of the change in reactant concentration over time"
"the reaction rate is the negative slope of the logarithm of the change in reactant concentration over the change in time"
"the reaction rate is the negative slope of the logarithm of the change in INTERMEDIATE concentration over the change in time"
etc...
Any thoughts? I've just never encoutered differential equations involving logarithms modelling multistep reaction kinetics in my pre-med studies.