Chemistry: Atoms First
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9781259638138
Author: Julia Burdge, Jason Overby Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 19, Problem 19.129QP
The following expression shows the dependence of the half-life of a reaction (t1/2) on the initial reactant concentration [A]0.
where n is the order of the reaction. Verify this dependence for zeroth-, first-, and second- order reactions.
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