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Question
Why can’t molecularity of any reaction be equal to zero?
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Solution
The number of molecules of the reactants involved in an elementary reaction is referred to as the molecularity of the reaction. For this, a single molecule with a minimum molecularity of one is required, and it cannot be zero.
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