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Grade 12th passIIT JEE Entrance Exam

can molecularity and order of reaction be same or they are alwats different...

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11 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Zunaid Sorathiya
11 Years ago
they need not to be same, we can find molecularity in elementry step i.e no of molecules participatin in rate determining step (theoritically determined ) but order is experimentally determined i.e for complete rktion , eg CH3COOC2H5 +  H20 – CH3COOH + C2H5COOH  Order = 1 Molecularity = 2..