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Rate from concentration-time graphs

Rate from concentration-time graphs

Concentration-time graph of a reactant with a tangent at time zero and points at 0.160 mol dm^-3 at 0 s and 0.085 mol dm^-3 at 50 s

The rate of reaction is the change in concentration per unit time, usually measured in mol dm−3 s−1\text{mol dm}^{-3} \text{ s}^{-1}mol dm−3 s−1. For a reactant, concentration falls, so the gradient is negative and we report rate as the negative of that gradient.

Rate equations Lesson

  1. A Level
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