Rate of a Chemical Reaction
Rate of a Chemical Reaction: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Rate of a Chemical Reaction, Units of Rate Constant, Average Rate of a Reaction, Instantaneous Rate of a Reaction, Rate Constant of a Chemical Reaction and, Difference between Rate Law and Law of Mass Action
Important Questions on Rate of a Chemical Reaction
The sum of the powers of the concentration terms in the experimentally determined rate equation is known as:

Consider a reaction . When concentration of both the reactants and is doubled, the rate increases by eight times. However, when the concentration of is doubled, keeping the concentration of constant, the rate is doubled. The overall order of the reaction is:

Consider the chemical reaction:
The rate of this reaction can be expressed in terms of time derivatives of concentration of Identify the correct relationship amongst the rate expressions:

Hydrogen gas, , reacts with iodine gas, , to form hydrogen iodide, :
The mechanism of the two-step reaction is considered to be:
step : fast
step : slow
What is the rate equation for the overall reaction?

For a reaction , rate of disappearance of is related to rate of appearance of by the expression

Equilibrium constants and for the following equilibria

Ammonia and oxygen react at high temperature as;
In an experiment rate of formation is . Calculate rate of disappearance of ammonia.

_____ (Law of mass action/Rate law) is an equation which represents the ratio between the masses of products and masses of reactants whose power is raised according to their stoichiometric coefficients.

For a reaction
the possible elementary steps (below are
Step
Step
its rate expression will be

For a given reaction the rate of reaction can be represented by

The term in a rate equation refers to:

Thermal decomposition of occurs as per the equation below :
The correct statement is

The rate constnat for the reaction
is . if the rate is , then the concentration of (in ) is

Rate constant depends upon:

The rate constant of the reaction . What is the concentration of B after 10 min from the start of the reaction?

For the reaction, , the rate of disappearance of is . The rate of appearance of is

For a reaction: , the rate of reaction with respect to will be:

For the reaction, , if , the value of would be

Nitrogen tetraoxide decomposes as
If the pressure of falls from to in minutes, the rate of appearance of is:

