Chemistry A-Level
Deducing order from initial-rate data
What Deducing order from initial-rate data means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Finding the order with respect to each reactant from experimental initial-rate data, not from the coefficients in the balanced equation.
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