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प्रश्न
Answer the following in one or two sentences.
What is the rate-determining step?
What do you understand by rate determining step?
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उत्तर
When a chemical reaction occurs in a series of steps, one of the steps is slower than all other steps. Such a slow step in the reaction is called a rate-determining step.
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Distinguish between Order and Molecularity of reaction.
Answer the following in one or two sentences.
What is the relationship between coefficients of reactants in a balanced equation for an overall reaction and exponents in the rate law? In what case the coefficients are the exponents?
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- \[\ce{NO_{(g)} + Cl2_{(g)} -> NOCl2_{(g)}}\]
- \[\ce{NOCl2_{(g)} + NO_{(g)} -> 2NOCl_{(g)}}\]
- Write the overall reaction.
- Identify the reaction intermediate.
- What is the molecularity of each step?
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Identify molecularity of following reaction:
\[\ce{C2H5I_{(g)} -> C2H_{4(g)} + HI_{(g)}}\]
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The rate determining step of a reaction is the step ____________.
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(i) \[\ce{NO2Cl_{(g)} -> NO2_{(g)} + Cl_{(g)}}\]
(ii) \[\ce{NO2Cl_{(g)} + Cl_{(g)} -> NO2_{(g)} + Cl2_{(g)}}\]
Identify the reaction intermediate.
A chemical species that is formed in one elementary step in the mechanism of complex reaction and consumed in the subsequent step is called ____________.
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(i) \[\ce{NO2Cl(g) ->[k1] NO2(g) + Cl(g)}\]
(ii) \[\ce{NO2Cl(g) + Cl(g) ->[k2] NO2(g) + Cl2(g)}\]
Identify the reaction intermediate.
How does a catalyst differ from reaction intermediate?
Find out the reaction intermediate and molecularity of the following reactions.
\[\ce{NO_{(g)} + Cl2_{(g)} -> NOCl_{2(g)}}\]
\[\ce{NOCl_{2(g)} + NO_{(g)} -> 2NOCl_{(g)}}\]
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Define molecularity of reaction.
