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What is the definition of the rate of a reaction?

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The change in molar concentration of a substance in a set time, usually one second

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What are the units of rate of reaction if a reaction takes place in a solution or is a homogeneous gas reaction?

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Mol dm-3 s-1

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What is the equation for working out rate?

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Rate = change in concentration/ change in time

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What is the concentration of a substance represented by?

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Writing the formula of the substance inside square brackets

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How can we measure the rate of change of concentration of substances?

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By measuring the concentration of substances at time intervals at a fixed temperature

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What is the order of reaction?

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The proportionality of the rate to the concentration of reactants where rate = k[A]’x (to the power of x) and x is the order

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What is a first order reaction and how would you write it?

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It is a reaction whose rate is proportional to the concentration of a reactant and the reaction is said to be first order with respect to reactant A

Rate = k[A]’

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What is a reaction that is second order with respect to a reactant and how would you write it?

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Where the rate of the reaction is proportional to the concentration of the reactant squared

Rate = k[B]’2

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What is a reaction that is zero order with respect to a reactant and how is it written?

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One where the rate of the reaction does not change when the concentration of rhe reactant changes

Rate = k[C]’0

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How is the overall rate equation formed?

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The individual effects of different reactants in rate are combined to form the overall rate equation

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How do you find the overall order of a reaction?

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By adding together the orders of the reaction with respect to each reactant

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What is a general rate equation for two reactants?

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Rate = k[A]’m[B]n

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What is K in the rate equation?

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The rate constant

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Why would a reactant not appear in the rate equation?

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In the rate is zero order with respect to that particular reactant

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What is the rate constant affected by and how?

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The temperature. As the temperature increases both the rate of reaction and rate constant increase

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How do you calculate the units of the rate constant?

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By using the rate equation. The units of k can be calculated by replacing each of the terms in the rate equation by their units and then cancelling out duplicated units

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What do the graphs look like for zero order, 1st order and 2nd order reactions with concentration against time?

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  • Zero order = straight line down
  • first order = very curved line
  • second order = slightly less curved line

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What happens as the reactant is used up in first, second and zero order reactions?

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  • zero order the reaction continues at a constant rate as the reactant doesn’t affect the rate
  • first and second order the rate of reaction becomes slower and the gradient decreases
19
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How can the rate constant be determined from a zero order graph?

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By the gradient of a graph of the concentration of that reactant against time

20
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How can you determine whether a reaction is first or second order?

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The rate must be determined at different concentrations or reactants and and a graph of the rate must be plotted against concentration of one reactant. The shapes of these graphs are very distinctive

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What do the graphs look like for zero, first and second order reactions for rate against concentration?

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  • zero order = straight line with a zero gradient
  • first order = diagonal line with a positive gradient
  • second order = curved line inwards

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How do you work out the rate constant from graphs for first and second order reactions?

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Use a rate against concentration graph and work out the gradient

23
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What are the two ways of plotting a graph of concentration against rate?

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  • the continuous monitoring method

* the initial rate method

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What is the continuous monitoring method?

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  • If the concentration of a reactant remaining in a solution can be measured at set time intervals then a single reaction can be monitored.
  • we plot a veaph of concentration against time and draw the line of best fit
  • then choose a number of points on the line of best fit and draw tangents at each of them. The gradient of each tangent is used to determine the rate ar that point
  • for each of our chosen points we now have the rate (tangent) and concentration
  • the rate and the concentration of the reactant at each point are then drawn in another graph which can be used to determine the order of reaction
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What is the initial rate method

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  • Used when the concentration of a reactant remaining in a solution cannot be measured at set time intervals
  • the reaction is carried out multiple times in seperate experiments each with a different starting concentration of a reactant.
  • the rate of reaction is followed by measuring the amount or concentration of product (not reactant). A graph of the amount of product against time is plotted for each experiment
  • as we know the initial concentration of the reactant for each experiment we measure the rate for the first few seconds (the gradient of a tangent drawn to the line). This determines the initial rate of reaction for each experiment at the start when the concentration of the reactant is known
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How else can the order of a reaction be determined without a graph?

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From sets of data involving the initial rate of a reaction

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What are the steps for working out the order of a reaction from sets of data involving the initial rate of reaction?

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• step 1: identify a pair of experiments where the concentration of the reactant you are looking at changes
• step 2: work out what factor the concentration has increased or decreased by
• step 3: work 9ut what factor the rate has increased or decreased by
• step 4: compare the factors that tbe concentration and the rate have changed by:
- zero order reactions: the factor that the rate changes bt is zero
- first order reactions: both the concentrarion and the rate change by the same factor
- second order reactions: the favtor that the rate changes by is the factor that the concentration changes by squared

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How do you work out the order if there’s not suitable pairs of experiments in the data?

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If you know the order of one reactant and the rate you can rearrange the rate equation to find it

E.g. y is first order

Rate = [y]1 [x]?

Rate/ [y]1 = [x]?

29
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What is the rate determining step?

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The slowest step in a series of intermediate stages that determines the overall rate of the chemical reaction

30
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What are the rules with the intermediate steps and the species involved in the rate equation?

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  • species that are only involved in steps after the rate determining step do not appear in the rate equation
  • species that appear in the steps up to and including the rate determining step are in the rate equation
  • a substance that acts as a catalyst will appear in the rate equation but not in the overall chemical equation for the reaction
31
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How do you find the rate equation and what can it be used to deduce?

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We find the rate equation by experiment and then can use this to deduce possible mechanisms

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What is the arrhenius equation and what do the different symbols mean?

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K = Ae ^ - EA/ RT

K= rate constant
A = arrhenius constant
e = mathematical constant with a value of approximately 2.718
EA = activation energy in J mol -1
T = absolute temperature in K
R = gas constant with a value of approximately 8.314 J K-1 mol -1
33
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What is the logarithmic form for the arrhenius equation?

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ln k = lnA - EA/RT

34
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What does plotting a graph of ln k against 1/T do?

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Gives a line of best fit where the gradient is equal to -EA/R and the intercept is equal to lnA

35
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What can values of J and T be used for (arrhenius equation)

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To calculate the activation energy for a reaction

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