ORDER OF A REACTION


Meaning of ORDER OF A REACTION in English

: a number that relates the rate of a chemical reaction with the concentrations of the reacting substances : the sum of all the exponents of the terms expressing concentrations of the molecules or atoms determining the rate of the reaction — compare first-order reaction , second-order reaction , third-order reaction , zero-order reaction ; molecularity

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