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A certain organic compound AA decomposes by two parallel first order mechanism

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If k1:k2=1:9 and k1=1.3×10-5 s-1

Calculate the concentration ratio of C to A, if experiment is started with only A and allowed to run for one hour.

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An optically active compound A upon acid catalysed hydrolysis yield two optically active compound B and C by pseudo first order kinetics. The observed rotation of the mixture after 20 min was 5° while after completion of the reaction it was -20°. If optical rotation per mole of A, B & C are 60°,40° &-80°, calculate half life and average life of the reaction.
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A vessel contains dimethyl ether at a pressure of 0.4 atm. Dimethyl ether decomposes as CH3OCH3gCH4g+COg+H2g  The rate constant of decomposition is 4.78×10-3 min-1. Calculate the ratio to initial rate of diffusion of rate of diffusion after 4.5 hour of initiation of decomposition. Assume the composition of gas present and composition of gas diffusing to be same.
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The reaction A proceeds in parallel channels   Question Image      Suppose the half life values for the two branches are 60 minutes and 90 minutes, what is the overall half-life value?
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The catalytic decomposition of formic acid may take place in two ways :

(a) HCOOH=H2O+CO

(b) HCOOH=H2+CO2

The rate constant and activation energy for reaction (a) are 2.79×10-3 min-1 at 236°C and 12.0 kcal mole1 . respectively and for reaction (b) are 1.52×10-4 min-1 at 237°C and 24.5kcalmole-1 respectively. Find the temperature which will give a product made up of equimolar quantities of water vapour, carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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For the following first order gaseous reaction

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The initial pressure in a container of capacity V litres is 1 atm. Pressure at time t=10sec is 1.4 atm and after infinite time it becomes 1.5 atmosphere. Find the rate constant k1 and k2 for the appropriate reactions.

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Ac227 has a half-life of 22 years with respect to radioactive decay. The decay follows two parallel paths, one leading to Th227 and the other to 223Fr. The percentage yields of these two daughter nuclides are 2.0 and 98.0, respectively. What are the decay constant (λ) for each of the separate paths?
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A sample of U238 (half-life =4.5×109year) ore is found to contain 23.8 g of U238 and 20.6 g of Pb206. Calculate the age of the ore.