Bimolecular
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Re: Bimolecular
A bimolecular reaction is where the rearrangement of two molecules (as reactants) produce one or more molecules of product.
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Re: Bimolecular
it basically just means that there are two reactants as in A+B yields C or 2A yields B
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A bimolecular reaction involves two reactants. This is an example of a second-order reaction.
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Athena L 1B wrote:So is a bimolecular reaction another way of saying it's second order?
A bimolecular reaction is always a second order reaction but not all second order reactions are bimolecular.
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Henry Dudley 1G wrote:Can a bimolecular reaction be third order if one of the reactants is second order?
I believe in lecture he showed that a bimolecular reaction was specifically related to reactants that are/add up to second order only. For third order (which he said was unlikely) they were labeled as termolecular.
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Re: Bimolecular
Bimolecular means that for a certain reaction there are two reactants. There's also unimolecular where there is only 1 reactant in the reaction and termolecular for three reactants.
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Molecularity refers to the number of reactants in an elementary reaction so a bimolecular reaction contains two reactants.
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Henry Dudley 1G wrote:Can a bimolecular reaction be third order if one of the reactants is second order?
no i believe theyre directly related so thats not possible
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Re: Bimolecular
Bi molecular is a description of how many molecules are participating on the reactants side of an equation. In every case, you would look at the reaction before intermediates or catalysts are removed. If there is only one molecule reacting, then you know it is unimolecular. If you see that there are 3, then it is molecular but that is not very common.
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