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Give the name of the catalyst that used in the contact process.

Important Questions on Chemical Kinetics (AHL)

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For the elementary reaction MN, the rate of disappearance of M increases by a factor of 8 upon doubling the concentration of M. The order of the reaction with respect to M is
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The half-life period of a first-order reaction is 15 minutes. The amount of substance left after one hour will be
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The rate constant for the first order reaction is 60 s-1. How much time will it take to reduce the concentration of the reactant to 116 th value?
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For the reaction 2A+BC , the values of initial rate at different reactant concentrations are given in the table below. The rate law for the reactions is:
[A](molL-1) [B](molL-1)
Initial Rate
(molL-1s-1)
0.05 0.05 0.045
0.10 0.05 0.090
0.20 0.10 0.72
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A+2BC , the rate equation for the reaction is given as

Rate =k[A][B]

If the concentration of A is kept the same but that of B is doubled what will happen to the rate itself?
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If the rate constant for a first order reaction is k, the time (t) required for the completion of 99% of the reaction is given by
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At 518oC, the rate of decomposition of a sample of gaseous acetaldehyde, initially at a pressure of 363Torr was 1.00 Torr s-1 when 5% had reacted and 0.50 Torr s-1 when 33% had reacted. The order of the reaction is:
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For a chemical reaction rate law is, rate =KA2B. If [A] is doubled at constant B, the rate of reaction.
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In preparation of sulphuric acid from Sulphur dioxide in lead chamber process. What substance is used as a catalyst?
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In the reaction,

P + Q R + S

the time taken for 75% reaction of P is twice the time taken for 50% reaction of P. The concentration of Q varies with reaction time as shown in the figure.The overall order of the reaction is:

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Higher order (>3) reactions are rare due to:
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For an elementary chemical reaction, A2 k-1k12A , the expression for dAdt is:

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NO2 required for a reaction is produced by the decomposition of N2O5 in CCl4 as per the equation,
2N2O5g4NO2g+O2g.
The initial concentration of N2O5 is 3.00 mol L-1 and it is 2.75 mol L-1 after 30 minutes. The rate of formation of NO2 is:
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Consider the kinetic data given in the following table for the reaction A+B+C Product.
 
Experiment No. A mol dm-3 B mol dm-3 C mol dm-3 Rate of reaction mol dm-3s-1
1 0.2 0.1 0.1 6.0×10-5
2 0.2 0.2 0.1 6.0×10-5
3 0.2 0.1 0.2 1.2×10-4
4 0.3 0.1 0.1 9.0×10-5


The rate of the reaction for A=0.15 mol dm-3, B=0.25 mol dm-3 and C=0.15 mol dm-3 is found to be Y×10-5 mol dm-3s-1. The value of Y is __________
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In the following reaction; xAyB

log10-dAdt=log10-dBdt+0.3010

‘A’ and ‘B’ respectively can be:

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The results given in the below table were obtained during kinetic studies of the following reaction: 2A+BC+D

Experiment A/molL-1 B/molL-1 Initial rate/molL-1min-1
I 0.1 0.1 6.00×10-3
II 0.1 0.2 2.40×10-2
III 0.2 0.1 1.20×10-2
IV X 0.2 7.20×10-2
V 0.3 Y 2.88×10-1

X and Y in the given table are respectively :

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The catalyst used in the Contact Process is 
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Mechanism of a hypothetical reaction X2+Y22XY is given below:

(i) X2X+X fast

(ii) X+Y2XY+Y slow

(iii) X+YXY fast

The overall order of the reaction will be
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The rate constant of the reaction AB is 0.6×10-3 mole per liter per second. If the initial concentration of A is 5 M, then the concentration of B after 20 minutes is:
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For the reaction, 2A+B products, when the concentration of A and B both were doubled, the rate of the reaction increased from 0.3 mol L-1s-1 to 2.4 mol L-1s-1.  When the concentration of A alone is doubled, the rate increased from 0.3 mol L-1s-1 to 0.6 mol L-1s-1.

Which one of the following statements is correct?