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Given information
Given:
Reaction shown here is experimentally observed to be second order in and first order in .
To Find:
If the reaction occur in single step or not.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
Hint:
According to rate law,
where,
- and are the concentrations of the compounds
- is the rate
- is rate constant
- and are reaction orders
For first order reaction rate law is found to be directly proportional to the concentration of a single reactant i.e.
........(1)
or simply
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