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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

We can find order of a composite reaction by considering the slowest elementary reaction involved in it but,will this value of order match with the experimental values always ?

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer9 Years ago
This is asscoisateed with the molecularity of the reactions.
This could be unimolecular, bimolecular or tetramolecular.
At RDS step that is at the slowest rate step, composite reactions involves the slwest elementary reactions that gets matched experimentally.